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Aside from that, a union must arrive at ways to govern its internal affairs. To work at cross purposes is to move backward, so we must have agreement with each other to work together, even when there is honest disagreement on what course of action we might take...
...Salvador slips backward toward the violence and chaos that characterized the country in the early 1980s, it seems plain that Washington's democratic experiment has failed. At best, the U.S. has leased a democracy in El Salvador that will struggle on only as long as Washington continues to pay the rent and Salvadoran officials agree to play along. (ARENA has already asserted that it does not intend to bow to U.S. demands even if it means a drastic reduction of aid.) The U.S. did Duarte no favor by emphasizing the fight against Communist guerrillas instead of reinforcing his agenda...
...York City's Oyster Bar & Restaurant in Grand Central Station, which lays out a whole table of alluring confections to tempt its mostly seafood-eating customers. "We wear sunglasses when we do that," says Peck, who wouldn't want to run into her diet doctor. "And walk in backward," adds Beck...
...only have we not progressed a great deal...--both statistically and attitudinally--but I fear we have moved backward...in a number of areas" said the affirmative action report. The writer of the report criticized the University for its low number of tenured Black professors (1.4 percent) and female professors (3 percent...
...moderately difficult reverse somersault that he was accustomed to nailing for 8s and 9s, but this time it went wrong. He jumped almost straight up instead of up and out, spun too close to the board, cracked his head on the board's edge as he rotated backward, and wobbled raggedly into the water. It was the melodrama of the Seoul competition's opening week, and the message of this first act was "He's human after all." The second act, soon to come, seemed to prove what many had thought all along...