Word: appealling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...backed contras when his C-123K cargo plane was downed over Nicaragua on Oct. 5. For that act, Hasenfus was found guilty of terrorism, illicit association and violation of public security. He received a 30-year sentence, the maximum penalty under Nicaraguan law, and will seek an appeal...
During this time, Wu Hung began to believe in Marxism. For him, its appeal lay in seeing beyond the personal concerns of the individual. He recalls, "I criticised myself. I thought my interest in Western art was selfish. It wasn't really very mature thinking and I realized when I got out what an illusion...
...architect said he had not yet estimated the cost of the necessary renovations, but added that he expected the Marriott Corporation would not appeal the decision. Developer David Barrett of Boston Properties said that "We're not here to appeal anything--it was our intention to open a hotel that was in compliance" with the regulations...
...record observations, obfuscations and pointed suggestions of self- restraint, even repression of the emerging facts. President Reagan declared that the | disclosures "are making it more difficult for us" to win the release of the Americans still held captive in Lebanon. The just-released Jacobsen, in a moving appeal at his welcoming ceremony at the White House, warned reporters that "unreasonable speculation on your part can endanger their lives." Cried Jacobsen: "In the name of God, would you please just be responsible and back...
...Reagan's appeal and political clout have fundamentally changed political debate; few victorious candidates of either party campaigned for increased domestic spending or the neoisolationist foreign policy approach favored by many Democrats in the 1970s. ABC News exit polls showed that Reagan's popularity remains astonishingly high; his positive approval rating is 62% to 38%. White House Political Director Mitchell Daniels noted that successful Democratic candidates "very wisely slipped every punch and ducked every engagement with the President." Even in Louisiana, where Reagan's policies were blamed for the statewide economic crisis wrought by the collapse of oil prices, Democratic...