Word: breaches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...harshest criticism of U.S. policy came from Peru and Venezuela, two countries that are involved in tense border disputes of their own. Charging that Washington had disrupted the basis of the O.A.S. and created a North-South breach in the hemisphere, Caracas sent a delegation to Western Europe to plead for an end to the European Community's economic sanctions against Argentina. The sudden surge of nationalism in Caracas raised fears in Guyana, meanwhile, that Venezuela might resort to military action to seize 58,000 sq. mi. of mineral-rich territory that have been the subject of dispute since...
Government obviously should not act antagonistically towards religious groups, but instead should provide a neutral setting in which religions can flourish without excessive entanglements with the State. But as one Supreme Court Justice wrote of a group prayer statute two decades ago. "The breach of neutrality that is today a trickling stream may all too soon become a raging torrent." In view of the President's proposal last week, we can only hope that his diagnosis will not soon prove accurate again...
...fought to build a near-imperial England and-now sees his grown sons gathered vulture-like to tear it apart. Amid all the yelling his passions provoke, his sons and enemies fall prey occasionally to the same overexcitement. The result is sort of a continuous rushing into the breach, a heroic rattling through brilliant language rather than feeling, creating a nagging sense that one has no time to catch the real Henry, the real Eleanor...
That day I had dinner with Nelson Rockefeller at his residence in Washington. He held that the tapes should be destroyed forthwith. They represented a breach of faith with anybody who had entered the Oval Office. They lent themselves to a form of selective blackmail either by Nixon and his associates or by whoever wound up controlling them. But Nixon was at that time in a hospital with pneumonia. When he emerged it was too late; legal processes to claim the tapes had started...
...Glenn in a committee hearing on Reagan's New Federalism proposals. "You brandished around computer printouts and had facile answers for everything. But we discovered later that those computer figures didn't add up, that they were deliberately altered. We were deceived. The net result of that breach of faith is only now being felt-deficits of $100 billion or more, more people unemployed than any time since the Depression. I certainly hope we get straight figures this year, undoctored and unaltered...