Word: assail
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Sakharov's stand. With impressive bravery, he condemns his government for its excessive buildup in both conventional and nuclear weapons and for aggressive actions like the invasion of Afghanistan. While expressing deep sympathy for the peace movement in the West, he chides "many of those participating" because they assail NATO's plans to install U.S. intermediate-range missiles in Western Europe and "entirely ignore" the deployment of Soviet missiles that prompted those plans. He is equally forceful in portraying as highly dangerous NATO'S strategy of relying on tactical nuclear weapons to deter Communist aggression in Europe...
...next night Reagan used a prime-time press conference to assail Congress again. "It is time to draw the Line," he declared. "I will not support a budget resolution that raises taxes while we are coming out of a recession. I will veto spending bills that would rekindle the fires of inflation and high interest rates...
They also assail a number of "half-truths" about the nuclear arms race. Among them: that the U.S. has always led in the competition; and that new Soviet weapons programs occur only in reaction to U.S. programs. "When they can be first, the Soviets try to be first," say the au thors. The Harvard group also considers to be a half-truth the view that arms control weakens U.S. defense efforts; equally misleading is the idea that arms control involves "trusting" the Soviets...
...attempt had to be made. The experience of the 1970s proves that no lasting prosperity is possible in an inflation-ridden economy. Throughout the decade, surges of inflation kept undermining every economic advance, and the rates of both price increases and unemployment rose irregularly but seemingly inexorably. Democrats who assail the Republican President for inducing a slump conveniently forget that Jimmy Carter all but openly engineered a recession in 1980 as a means of reducing inflation. That downturn, however, was too short to accomplish much...
...streets, schools, water systems, ports, railroads are falling apart. That's what F.D.R. was up against 50 years ago. Then the Government rolled up its sleeves and found jobs for people." True enough, but heavy spending on public works now would deepen the already alarming deficits. Other Democrats assail Reagan's cuts in such social programs as food stamps, welfare and student loans, implying that were they in control they would spend more. But where the money would come from is a subject they usually avoid...