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...White House went on the offensive as For the Record was published and excerpted in TIME. The strategy was to depict Regan as a cad, astrology as harmless, Nancy as vulnerable and Ronnie as aggrieved. "I was taken aback by the vengefulness of the attack," the First Lady said. "It comes through that Don Regan doesn't really like me." At a lunch with Columnist Carl Rowan, Reagan played the angry husband. "I'll be damned if I just sit by and let them railroad my wife," he said. He noted that Nancy was upset for having caused the furor...
...grew older I noticed that adults seemed taken aback when I announced my intentions, as though they wondered why I would want to run for office. And when I was about nine or 10 I finally realized that many found this ambition so unusual for the simple reason that I was a woman...
...Control System. But complications in both the U.S. and Pakistan in recent weeks have dampened hopes of delivering them anytime soon. The main stumbling block is that Washington and Islamabad have been unable to agree on what type of plane would be most suitable. Washington has also been taken aback by some troubling consequences of the decision, including the possibility that it may put American soldiers in danger -- and involve the U.S. more directly than ever in the Afghan...
...later, Vice President George Bush, echoing the themes stressed by the President, was roundly booed by an audience gathered at the Washington Hilton for the third International Conference on AIDS. In an aside that was picked up on an open television microphone, Bush, taken aback by the reaction, asked, "Who was that? Some gay group out there?" Before his speech, an estimated 350 protesters, some of them suffering from AIDS, had staged a noisy demonstration in front of the White House. District of Columbia police, wearing yellow rubber gloves to protect against possible AIDS-virus infection, arrested...
...course there is, as Talbot quickly discovers. Thanks to the neglect of a drunken officer, the ship is trapped in a sudden squall, "taken aback" in nautical terms, crucial sails shredded and masts splintered. Talbot reacts first not to the danger but to the words used to describe it: "What a language is ours, how diverse, how direct in indirection, how completely, and, as it were, unconsciously metaphorical!" Next, the wounded vessel encounters the Alcyone, another British ship, bound for India and bearing news. The endless war with France is over. Napoleon Bonaparte has been driven into exile...