Aristocrats feared gin's corrosiveeffect on the social hierarchy: Might not a drunken millwright someday fancy himself equal to a drunken lord of the manor?
Promoting this concept which is grounded in the suspicions and distrust of the Cold War inevitably has a very corrosiveeffect on how we perceive each other.
While the economic and political distortions are deplorable, is pales in importance to another distortion that has a long-term corrosiveeffect on the very fiber of our economic system.
Promoting this concept -- which is grounded in the suspicions and distrust of the Cold War -- inevitably has a very corrosiveeffect on how we perceive each other.
It is more accurate to say, however, that - given the corrosiveeffect of obsolescence on the safety, reliability and credibility of our aging nuclear arsenal - it amounts to unilateral disarmament.