The more seriously the SNF rates the resident, the more money it gets each day.

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In the absence of such a speedy accord, Germans and others will feel justified in insisting that SNF negotiations be begun at once.

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President Bush, in particular, has proclaimed a powerful "double hit" with his initiatives on short-range nuclear forces (SNF) and conventional weapons arms control.

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Such an ambitious acceleration of the pace of the conventional negotiations was designed to sate West German pressure for immediate negotiations on SNF.

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If CMS is going to expand review of SNF claims, how will it do that without more inspectors and improving how it does inspections?

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Moreover, unless the allies agree to modernize such forces as they are permitted to retain under a new SNF deal, the result would be effectively the same as agreeing to their elimination, i.e.

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Worse still, the Bush Administration has recently expressed its willingness to accelerate the start of such negotiations, even as it has unilaterally terminated programs needed to preserve the effectiveness and deterrent credibility of the SNF systems involved.

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