Word: bring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Iran-contra mess, the stock-market crash and the inability to pick a Supreme Court nominee capable of being confirmed by the Senate have threatened to add Ronald Reagan to the list of 20th century presidential failures." Are you serious? Here is a President who has been able to bring about a domestic- policy revolution: the top tax rate is down from 70% to 28%, inflation has been licked, and the economy has galloped ahead at a record pace for 59 months...
Despite such embarrassments, the society's real achievement has been to bring the world and the marvels of scientific discovery to its readers, who for years have followed the adventures of such favorites as French Undersea Explorer Jacques-Yves Cousteau and Chimpanzee Expert Jane Goodall. Says Paleoanthropologist Richard Leakey, another society beneficiary: "The Geographic's foundation funding has contributed more than any other organization in bringing about an understanding of early man." The magazine's greatest strength is the exceptional sense of intimacy it shares with its readers, as well as its simple, first-person style. 60 Minutes Correspondent Morley...
...leaders," the President continued. "But he is devoted to his system, just as we are to ours. He does not believe that they are violating human rights in the Soviet Union. In their system everybody has a job, and he sees that as a great thing. He does not bring up the fact that those people are told what job they can have and they do not have a free choice. He also believes that some things we do in this country deny human rights, and he raises that...
...Gorbachev did bring up one prickly problem that won instant sympathy from Reagan -- his treatment by the media. Now that Gorbachev is an active member of the global village, with its probing cameras and satellite network, he voices complaints that sound as though they could come from the White House. "Oh, he did talk some about the media and the difficulties he was having with them," said Reagan. "I just told him what Lyndon Johnson once said. L.B.J. claimed that if one morning he walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read...
...General Fidel Ramos, whose loyalty to Aquino proved decisive on Aug. 28, extended a hand toward him. "We shall guarantee Honasan honorable treatment under due process of law," said Ramos. The general reported that Honasan was willing to cooperate: "He has said he will do what he can to bring ((other rebels...