Word: bets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...anti-Communist force, however solid its anti-Communist convictions. The Reagan Administration first learned that lesson in El Salvador when it realized that a regime dominated by the loudest and fiercest anti-Communists--but hated for its death squads and reactionary economic policies--was not America's best bet. The U.S. rightly decided to back instead a left-of-center politician, Jose Napoleon Duarte, who may seem like a dangerous socialist to conservatives but who is in fact a committed democrat with a popular following...
...bet you think I realized my tragic error somewhere among this tenured lunatic's aforementioned and subsequent rantings. You're wrong. I realized it after he finished his last poem--something about watching his cat eat a slug--and the people around me gave him a standing ovation...
...then we must test." Partly because of midterm congressional elections and partly because of the complexity of the subjects that need to be clarified before a meeting, a summit will probably not be held until late November or early December. "Later rather than earlier seems to be the best bet," predicts one U.S. official. "But there will be a 1986 summit...
...begun to bet on the games. A liter of Coke to the winners. And after the third game--a two touchdown loss--I went to the store and bought the winners their Coke...
...attacks the heart of high school superficiality with all the unconventional weapons of his character and his very down-to-earth courage. Will Lucas get the girl? Will his classmates accept him for what he is? Are football players such bad guys after all? This is Hollywood. You can bet at least a compromise with fate will be worked...