Word: betterment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...survey, conducted by Yankelovich Clancy Shulman, found that 75% of those questioned approve of Bush's performance in office -- a new high for the President, and a better mark by far than Ronald Reagan, Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford or Richard Nixon received at this stage of their terms. Bush may also find that his popularity has coattails: when asked with which party they identify, just as many people called themselves Republicans (32%) as Democrats. In Yankelovich surveys earlier this year, Democrats averaged a six- point edge. By 39% to 29%, the G.O.P. is seen as better able than the Democrats...
They are much better today than they have been for a long time. When we had a dictatorship, our relations with the U.S. were, shall we say, "special." It could not have been particularly agreeable for the U.S. to deal with an authoritarian regime, but they considered it necessary from a geostrategic viewpoint. We have gone through a difficult period when we had to negotiate a new agreement on a different footing. The former regime ((of General Francisco Franco)) posed no problem for the U.S., but that comfortable relationship was lost. Now we have one of mutual acceptance and respect...
...same time, there are ways for the South to clean up its own act. Some developing nations run up more than a third of their debt buying arms. Surely at least some of the $200 billion a year that poorer countries lavish on their military establishments could be better spent on saving the environment...
Abernathy claims that he would have avoided sexual matters "had others not dealt with the matter in such detail." Previous accounts of King's philandering, says Abernathy, have not provided an explanation of his behavior. Abernathy does not do much better, merely observing that King "had a particularly difficult time" fending off women...
...Nothing better illustrated the growing fear of a pro-choice voter backlash than the special session of the Florida legislature. Just days after the Supreme Court's Webster ruling, first-term Republican Governor Bob Martinez, a staunch pro-lifer, called the session to consider new antiabortion laws. In a state with a fast-growing G.O.P., it appeared to be a politically astute move...