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escalation [‚es·kə′lā·shən] (industrial engineering) Provision in actual or estimated costs for inflational increases in the costs of equipment, materials, labor, and so on, over those specified in an original contract. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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While V's terrorism was targeted specifically at corrupt officials, his strategic purpose was to incite the public into a general revolt, and he fully understood how the radicalization/reprisal escalation ladder would bring this about. HERMAN KAHN'S 1962 book Thinking about the Unthinkable, a mass-market reworking of his influential 1960 treatise On Thermonuclear War, introduced a generation of horrified Americans to the intricacies of modern nuclear strategy: counterforce and countervalue, the escalation ladder, the gruesome hypothetical scenario. |
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