Rather, as a bilateral, non-dispositive treaty, the ABM Treaty lapsed when the USSR ceased to exist.
Where it lapsed, in southern slaveholding colonies, a long period of economic backwardness resulted.
Staff were asked to take unpaid leave at Christmas and 45 part-time contracts lapsed.
Through all those weeks, their house had never lapsed from its perfect tidiness and order.
The Royal Bank of Scotland was created in 1727, after the Bank of Scotland's monopoly lapsed.
In unbelieving, lapsed Britain, God is a polite puzzle more than an everyday challenge.
Mr Obama has said he would support reinstating an assault weapons ban that lapsed in 2004.
If their subscription lapsed, they would always find a way to come back into the fold.
The authority had lapsed in 1994, and Mr Clinton had failed to renew it.
It will be down to the big City institutions to mop up all the so-called lapsed shares.
And when the ban lapsed a decade later, there was no discernable effect on violent crime either.
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At the gym I did my dumb struts on the elliptical and lapsed into spells of lost thought.
That could help grease the way for a compromise over the future of the temporarily lapsed estate tax.
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The two lapsed breaks that affect the most individual taxpayers provided temporary relief from the alternative minimum tax.
SpaceX has also released time-lapsed footage of Dragon leaving the International Space Station, which you can watch below.
Details of the searches were publicised after a court seal lapsed on Wednesday.
Mr Obama has said he will call for a renewed ban on assault weapons - which lapsed in 2004.
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Wynne discovered that while DeLorean Motor was still tied up in Chapter 11, registration of the company name had lapsed.
Hence, the ABM Treaty lapsed by operation of law - that is, automatically - when the USSR dissolved in 1991.
In fact Richard says he's a lapsed Labour Party member, but one with a real bee in his bonnet over pensions.
An agreement on the redevelopment of Alderney's derelict Fort Tourgis has lapsed, according to the chief executive of the island's States.
Many workers haven't gotten cost-of-living raises since the contracts lapsed, although some get increases linked to longevity or acquiring new credentials.
Pernod Ricard claims it was not theirs to sell, because they failed to re-register it when it lapsed in the 1970s.
The group said beef producers agreed in 1997 to include such details on labels, but that accord had lapsed last September.
Mr Yeltsin's handlers presumably do not want the world to hear the incoherence into which Russia's first elected leader has lapsed.
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Clinton, of all people, should have known from our own now-lapsed independent counsel law the shortcomings of that kind of an agreement.
Ms Gerlaide is one of the many lapsed Catholics in this community.
The power to use the tartan tax, which can raise or lower income tax by 3p in the pound lapsed in 2007.
Later when he has been formally "read in" on the case, Eric exploits his own (lapsed) Catholic credentials to allay Hanssen's suspicions.
"The Bush tax cuts lapsed at midnight last night, " Norquist tweeted Tuesday.
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