Those who disagree often cite mostly positive political changes in the former Soviet Union as a principal reason why the U.S. is today less in need of nuclear deterrence than in the past.

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The latter was the principal reason for the invention of fermented beverages which, pleasurable as they may be, have in turn produced their own health problems.

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The principal reason to see this film, as with its predecessor, is Michael Douglas, whose Gordon Gekko, after a spell in jail, looks older, no wiser, but more rueful about his crimes unless, that is, you are cynical enough to believe that repentance itself can be a scam.

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For that reason, among others, Alaska's Fort Greely was selected as the site for the principal U.S. ground-based defense against such missiles.

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