Word: anyways
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...they had already served their initial two years, to report for further active duty. The End Conscription Campaign, which advocates working in hospitals and performing other types of community service as alternatives to enlisting in the military, did not sponsor the mass act of defiance. Vlok blamed the group anyway. "South Africa's future will be in jeopardy," he said. "This must stop...
Dukakis, whose campaign stops also feature generous reliance on the Stars and Stripes, responds that patriotism means respect for the law rather than ritual. "I can't imagine a President of the United States who knows that a bill is unconstitutional and proceeds to sign it anyway," he declared last week. "If the Vice President is saying that he would sign an unconstitutional bill, then in my judgment he is not fit to hold office." Escalating the hyperbole, Dukakis likened Bush's stance on the pledge to the wanton disregard for law revealed in the Iran-contra affair...
Trains are still the best conveyance for transporting a mood. Last week's destination was either the past or the future -- Chicago anyway, Wrigley Field. After two or three switchyards, a traveler gets turned around, and the sensation is of highballing one way and the other, backward and forward, in time...
...Sandberg was up. Out of the rightfield stands popped Morganna, the floppy exhibitionist with the unmissable kisser, racing for the batter's box on mincing old-ballplayer feet that brought back the newsreels. She couldn't make it past the security guards to Sandberg, but she got to him anyway. His giggling homer gave Chicago a 2-1 lead...
...that left-wing politicians had installed a blatantly anti-U.S. mural in the meeting hall of the Ecuadorian Congress, where the swearing-in ceremony was to take place. Among the mural's features: a skull wearing a Nazi-like helmet emblazoned with the initials CIA. Shultz showed up anyway. "As to the insult to the United States," he said, getting in the last word, "I don't appreciate...