81.   The list includes nuclear arms cuts negotiated on American terms and an agreement to cooperate on a missile defense shield that the Russians have condemned.

82.   The move toward individual investment retirement accounts and the idea of a missile defense shield have long been dear to Republicans and some of their constituencies.

83.   The Pentagon is now committed to developing such a national missile shield.

84.   The second straight failure of a test for the proposed national missile shield has set off a barrage of criticism.

85.   The program, which will be an important component of a missile defense shield, has been over budget and behind schedule.

86.   The so-called missile shield is an example in another sense, even more profound.

87.   The technology of limited defensive missile shields has not yet been reliably perfected.

88.   The two leaders did not appear to make substantial progress over the fate of the ABM treaty, which bars the building of a missile defense shield.

89.   Then, the Reagan administration imagined a space-based missile shield that could defeat a hypothetical, vast first strike by the Soviet Union.

90.   These technologies would cost a fraction of what the administration wants to spend on the missile shield.