Word: blusterers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Reaganites have shifted the entire context within which the debate over education funding takes place. Rather than discuss whether students should have unlimited access to federal Guaranteed Student Loans (GSLs)--a philosophical argument they consistently lost all winter--the would-be budgetary revolutionaries use severe publicity and bureaucratic bluster to dissuade substantial numbers of students from even applying for aid. Then they point to the dropping loan figures as an example of conservative belt tightening. Rather than justify each separate funding reduction, the Administration emphasizes that any aid granted is a luxury...
Soviet-U.S. Relations. Despite the bluster from both sides, the two superpowers are negotiating seriously in Geneva, although without results so far, about limitations on theater nuclear weapons in Europe. Although Reagan pledged during his campaign to move for negotiations toward a significant reduction in nuclear arms, aides are only now readying a list of possible negotiating options; they hope to have it on the President's desk next week. If all goes well, he will announce the U.S. position either just before or during his trip to Europe in June. That will be none too early...
...After one year in office, it has become transparent that Haig is a 'pure dententeist' [sic]...." writes the magazine. "The secretary loves to bluster about the Soviets, but when it comes to urging actions short of war, his advice is remarkably restrained." For Human Events, "Haig, in short, must...
...minutes to muster each case. Success at on-topic demands fetishistic research, note cards by the hundred gross and the rhetorical felicity of an armored truck. Off-topic debate, by contrast, is meant to be a cross between Groucho Marx and Daniel Webster. It rewards insult, parry and bluster. The judges' instructions for the Princeton tournament, for instance, emphasize that "witty (and only witty) heckling is encouraged...
...told. Alistair (Robin Herford), Keith's partner in business, sees everybody's side but his own, while his wife Emma (Lavinia Bertram) wonders how she can transform the toothpick that runs up his back into a spine. The only problem is that Keith, for all his bluster, does not know what he is doing, in business or on the boat, and Alistair, when he eventually takes the helm, runs them onto the mud. Salvation comes in the person of a riverman, Vince (Graeme Eton), who puts the boat back on course. Vince knows how to do everything...