Word: approaches
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...belief that some laws are little more than inconvenient pieces of paper. It is now clear that the Reagan team consciously set out to violate the spirit, if not the letter, of the Boland amendment, which banned U.S. military aid to the contras. This same wink-and-nod approach to legality has often been apparent in the Administration's languid enforcement of civil rights statutes. The freewheeling business climate also owes a large debt to the President's none-too-secret hostility to many forms of economic regulation...
From now on, the president said, "if aircraft approach any of our ships in a way that appears hostile, there is one order of battle. Defend yourselves. Defend American lives...
...assassinated speakers whose political views the professor judged unacceptable. It is perhaps inevitable that academic freedom protects even this degree of zaniness, but it would be a tragedy if there came to be a time when only the crazed or fanatical were protected. Yet that is the danger we approach as year after year the violations of free speech accumulate uncorrected, as it becomes ever more clear that unpopular speakers at Harvard can expect to be harassed and intimidated, and that the university will neither seriously discipline the perpetrators nor invite the silenced speakers back. If students on the Right...
...three of the competitors will probably do well for different reasons. Gephardt has plowed Iowa more vigorously than a platoon of farmers and managed to identify himself with an issue -- protectionist measures to cut the trade deficit -- that appeals to labor activists. Even those who disagree with Gephardt's approach concede that he has exploited it shrewdly. Given the fractured nature of the Hart-less field, the support of labor could boost Gephardt to top-tier status, though it may hamper the recent headway he has been making in the South...
Reagan was pushing that two-track approach last week even before Nakasone arrived. Speaking to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the President attacked a restrictive trade proposal put forth by Representative Richard Gephardt, a 1988 White House hopeful. The Gephardt plan was an amendment to a House trade bill that would force countries that pile up huge trade surpluses with the U.S. through unfair trade practices to slash the imbalances by 10% a year or face a barrage of withering sanctions. Reagan described it as a "particularly bad proposal." But in the same speech the President called on Japan...