Word: betrays
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Third Millennium picked safe stances: cut the deficit, reduce crime and clean up the environment. Its few social policy recommendations betray neoconservative leanings in assailing affirmative action, calling for 200,000 more police to clean up inner cities and more regulations to protect the environment...
...level officer in the CIA's Soviet counterintelligence section was arrested and charged with spying for Moscow beginning in the mid-1980s. Prosecutors suspect that Aldrich Hazen Ames and his Colombian-born wife passed on information that, among other things, betrayed at least 10 Soviet nationals, some of whom were apparently executed in Moscow as spies for the U.S. Ames' attorney says he will fight the charges and warned of a prolonged and very public trial that might betray agency secrets. In Congress the case drew angry calls for the suspension of U.S. aid to Russia. The Clinton Administration...
...Female. Hmm... Maybe this "F" should stand for "feminist." LWFs compose the monolithic block of feminists responsible for issues like the date rape "crisis." As feminists Camille Paglia and Katie Roiphe '90 point out, these white, upper-middle-class females betray true feminism with their narrow focus on peripheral issues like date rape...
However "inside" this sounds, the film's people are complex, attractive and familiar; they could be working at the next desk or sleeping on the next pillow. They can be loved and can betray almost simultaneously. Matt can be both timid ("I'm actually afraid of my own kid") and, when defending his craft against a studio creep, vindictive ("You know nothing but how to pose for this little picture of you that nobody is snapping"). The insecure mogul somehow appeals to the sensitive researcher ("I think it's so wonderful that you don't worry about even trying...
...this set of beliefs, then it is a matter of honesty to declare this and draw the consequences." If a theologian needs prodding to come to that realization, Ratzinger is happy to prod. And if this means many church members must drop out, so be it. Does this not betray his past? "I see no break in my views as a theologian," he says. "It is absolute nonsense to say Vatican II left it up to the individual to decide which religious ideas he would adopt and which he would not." As a participant in the council, "I would...