Word: bravely
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...many members of Congress, the balloon seems filled with lead. They are loath to brave the wrath of the many constituents who would be hurt by the plan for the sake of a reform that does nothing to shrink the shockingly menacing deficit. Many would prefer to use tax reform as sugarcoating for a net tax increase, but that approach would clash head on with Reagan's diehard opposition to any overall tax boost. Consequently, Robert Dole, newly elected majority leader of the Republican-controlled Senate (see following story), gently told the White House that Congress would probably give...
...more solemn moments, the press likes to proclaim its devotion to the pub lic interest, but, as it goes about its daily routine, it is more prosaically concerned with what interests the public. In the support of some cause, the press may brave ly or stubbornly defy public opinion, but it never for long pursues topics the pub lic tunes out on. The Democratic campaign began much too early, the public quickly tired of the hassling that went on all spring between Walter Mondale, Gary Hart and Jesse Jackson, and both conventions got only so-so television ratings. A public...
...Killing Fields implies that Schanberg, when he began reporting from Southeast Asia, may have borrowed some of his reportorial manner from newspapering yarns. Brave, adversarial in his relations with the American mission supporting the Lon Nol government, unaware of how brutal the Khmer Rouge is, he is the classically impatient American journalist, overriding his better instincts in order to get the story. Those include, in Waterston's fine performance, the hint of a pervasive, unexamined melancholia that is far more common in life than it is in the movies. The picture leaves no doubt that if Schanberg had heeded...
...films brave the storm against violent...
Unfortunately for Mondale, Reagan has succeeded in appropriating the "Peace through Strength" philosophy of defense from the Democratic Party as well. This legacy of Kennedy and Harry S Truman--nowhere more evident than in Kennedy's brave action in the Cuban Missile Crisis--has reappeared in Reagan's performances in Lebanon, Grenada, and Latin America. The diplomacy of concession and fear practiced by the Carter-Mondale Administration have receded into embarrassing memories...