Word: bleedings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...much as he does the President's. Says one associate who knows both of them personally: "Nancy doesn't tell the President everything. But she's not afraid to tell Mike anything. They're like crossed fingers." Together they stand ready to fight and bleed for their man, the President. "If those two turn against you," says a close colleague, "you're dead around here...
...start in with the Reaganites, but clearly a fresh perspective is needed when President Reagan calls current U.S. aid to El Salvador--an amount which, according to published estimates allots more than $20,000 per Salvadoran guerilla--"niggardly," and likens the funding to "letting El Salvador slowly bleed to death." Clearly it is needed when, in the age of $50 screwdrivers and massive cost overruns. Weinberger says of inefficiency and corruption in Defense contracting: "there isn't any to start with, and it has no effect [on preparedness...
...next day Reagan used almost exactly those words during a half-hour nationally televised speech. "We have provided just enough aid to avoid outright disaster, but not enough to resolve the crisis, so El Salvador is being left to slowly bleed to death," he declared. Conveying both anger and urgency, the President painted a harsh picture of Soviet, Cuban and Nicaraguan attempts to "spread Communism by force throughout the hemisphere." Alternately evoking that alarming picture and declaring the Administration's commitment to programs of longterm, peaceful economic and social assistance for Central America, Reagan implicitly justified his Administration...
...customers for much of its mushrooming costs, currently estimated at $400 million a month in interest and other overhead, until Shoreham begins to provide electricity. Says Paine Webber's corporate vice president Peter Jadrosich: "If they don't bring Shoreham into service, they're going to bleed to death...
...surgery was hardly a success: Emma's nose began to bleed regularly and profusely. A few weeks after the operation, another doctor found that Fliess had left over half a meter of gauze inside her nose. As Freud later wrote to Fliess, the other physician "pulled at something like a thread, kept on pulling and before either one of us had time to think, at least half a meter of gauze had been removed from the cavity. The next moment came a flood of blood. The patient turned white, her eyes bulged, and she had no pulse." However, with...