Word: besting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...coaching prepares us for anything," Brynteson said. "Bob makes it clear that we'll play under any conditions, and we'll play our best...
...compiled a bad record. "We have not been at war; he has had some foreign policy success," says Kennedy. But he returns to the economy as the issue on which he will focus: "Our economic vitality is crucial to the politics of this nation. A strong economy is the best social program we can have. And these economic issues affect the confidence the people have in all our institutions...
Haber insisted last week that her source for the column was not the FBI but "a journalist" whom she would not name. Said Haber: "I am beginning to wonder who my best friends are. Obviously, if I knew then what I know now, I wouldn't have printed the item. It's absolutely shocking and appalling. I can now have no trust in anybody...
...taken for granted as the absolute ruler of his country and as a friend of the U.S. Yet in the end, Somoza's national guard, cloned from the U.S. Marine Corps, was as ineffective against the Sandinista guerrillas as the Shah's army and secret police-the best that petro-billions could buy-were against the mostly unarmed followers of a cranky, theocratic graybeard, the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini...
...large part of the challenge is to distinguish between viable authoritarian regimes and ones that are doomed, especially among those the U.S. relies on to protect regional security. Where is the status quo best sustained, and where is it a lost cause? When should the U.S. stand by a client, despite his internal regime, and when should the U.S. begin to distance itself from him? In the context of statecraft, these questions are neither moralistic nor cynical. They are a matter of differentiating between those with whom the U.S. must live and those who will try to cling...