Word: brings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...confidence in Congress continues to warfe with its impotence to instill financial stability, one would think that our representatives would long for a chance to step off the merry-go-round and relinquish an aspect of the budgetary process contradictory to their main mission in Washington: to bring regional interests into national legislation. As it represents the largest number of people, Congress has always had, and should continue to have the main responsibility for controversial fiscal policy. But recently we speak of a world economy. Regional and special interests are vital. But national and international considerations (more the responsibility...
...fire, which was contained June 30, might have been extinguished more quickly if it had started in a more accessible location. Ames said the Forest Service could not get power equipment like bulldozers into the heavily wooded area and had to bring firefighters in by helicopter and boat...
...Kahn insists, "to end a bitter war which threatened Israel..." or to stem the "geographical and religious destruction of Israel" which he believes to be the "ultimate goal" of the war in Lebanon. Instead, the Americans entered to diffuse a complex political situation which Israel helped to bring about by occupying southern Lebanon, coming into conflict with the Soviet client Syria, besieging the heavily-populated Lebanese capital, and entrapping thousands of Palestinian guerillas in that city. The Israeli invasion of summer 1982 resulted in some 20,000 Lebanese and Palestinian deaths and countless more injuries, and could hardly be justified...
...perhaps the most important reason why few people hear of Harvard's Herculean heroes is because the Harvard Department of Athletics likes it that way. Remember, Harvard builds character, not professionals. (Or so they say.) Just as national championships bring the wary eyes, so, too, do too many stories on the Hulks of Harvard...
...week's end the results appeared to give Mugabe's Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front six additional seats in the country's 100- member Parliament, bringing the party's total to 63. The tally makes it doubtful that Mugabe will be able to win the unanimous parliamentary backing now needed to impose one-party rule. But it does bring him closer to the 70 parliamentary votes that will be needed under the constitution to switch to a one-party system after...