Word: anties
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Graham's campaign asserts that Thompsonaccepted campaign money from anti-rent controldevelopers. "The only measure of the man is whocontributes to his campaign," Albano says...
...have not seen an official vote of hers that has been anti-rent control," said Cavellini. "But she has made speeches in the Council, similar to [Mayor Alfred E.] Vellucci, that show signs of wavering. People worry because they see little signs...
...values around the world, arming a movement here, putting pressure on a dictatorship there, as J.F.K. put it, "to assure the survival and the success of liberty." Without an Evil Empire to contend with, the job becomes easier -- there is less need to support dictators in the name of anti- Communism -- but harder to justify. Why make the effort? Seventy years ago, Americans were not wildly enthusiastic about Woodrow Wilson's crusade for democracy. Whether a post-Soviet America will want to embrace Wilsonian idealism any more than did a pre-Soviet America is an open question...
Inspired by the increase in drug-related violence, the new law takes a unique approach to controlling "Saturday-night specials." Starting in 1990, a nine-member board made up of representatives of pro-and anti-gun groups and law-enforcement agencies would compile a list of guns that could be sold legally. Firearms not on the list would be prohibited, and violators caught manufacturing or selling the weapons would be fined up to $10,000 a gun. While the law aims to eliminate only weapons with no "socially useful purpose," opponents claim that it would amount to a sweeping...
...anger, glibness, distortion, evasion, hostility and self-righteousness. Effective Presidents, for the most part, do not taunt and humiliate adversaries when conducting diplomacy or pursuing legislation. In war, yes, but war is a last resort. A President's task is to reconcile, to include. Hence, Richard Nixon, a bareknuckle anti-Commie on the way up, spent as much time at his first summit trying to persuade Leonid Brezhnev that they would both be winners with an arms-limitation agreement as he did espousing the U.S. position. John Kennedy early in his presidency grew heated and called Big Steel men "s.o.b...