Word: breaches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WHILE INVOKING a boycott to demonstrate our disapproval of Soviet violations of human rights, we ourselves breach the rights of our athletes. Those who will compete on our national team have sacrificed scholastics and career options in order to train for these Olympics. Since the United States does not support our athletes until they have made the national team, they must pay the expenses of training and traveling that are necessary when aspiring to reach Olympic competition. These individuals not only sweat through grueling training, but also suffer the financial woes of supporting themselves. The U.S. has developed a system...
...stir his favorite golden champagne cocktails (ingredients: good champagne, a soupçon of pineapple juice, a splash of Cointreau, 12 oz. of soda and a tsp. of sugar). Heim, who speaks 14 languages, newly enjoys, as apostolic delegate, diplomatic status granted by the British government, healing a breach opened with the Roman church by Henry VIII; his credentials as a gourmet have been accepted by such distinguished dinner guests as Donald Coggan, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Foreign Minister Lord Carrington and Elizabeth, the Queen Mother. Heim's homily to all his guests: Use only white wine in your...
...punishment" if it is carried out by injection. But the lethal substance, probably a fast-acting barbiturate mixed with a paralyzing chemical agent, would have to be administered at least indirectly by a physician. And that, charge a Boston doctor and a lawyer, would constitute a cruel and unusual breach of medical ethics...
...party, fared little better. His campaign warnings that the election of Indira and Sanjay heralded a return to dictatorship were ignored. Lok Dal won only 41 seats in Parliament, including Singh's own. It seemed unlikely that the bitterly quarrelsome Lok Dal and Janata parties could repair their breach in order to form an effective opposition to Gandhi's Congress Party. An ominous prospect, however, is an alliance between the Communist parties that won a total of 37 seats in West Bengal. Though the parties have ideological differences, they may join with leftist parties and splinter groups...
...more domestic mining and some compromises on the environmental front would help avoid repetition of the oil saga of the 1960s and 1970s, when the U.S. became needlessly overdependent on dubious foreign suppliers. In an era of growing economic confrontation, increasing reliance on imported minerals creates a potentially dangerous breach in the nation's defenses...