Word: buttress
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...buttress its case, the agency has placed in evidence voluminous documents that spell out details of the family business never before made public. They indicate that the holdings acquired by Newhouse, the son of poor Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe, have grown into America's biggest family-owned media conglomerate. After two years spent interviewing Newhouse executives and studying financial records, IRS Appraiser Joseph Baniewicz put a value of $1.23 billion on the estate at the time of the publisher's death. Sons Donald, 53, and Samuel I. Newhouse Jr., 55, who seem to have inherited their father...
...case. It was immediately publicized by the State Department even though it somewhat undercut the American position. A remark by the pilot of the Su-15 that shot down the airliner, originally said to be unintelligible, was revised to read, "I am firing cannon bursts." This seemed to buttress the Soviet claim that its pilot had fired tracer shots to warn the Korean jetliner away from Soviet airspace...
...document in question consists mainly of a series of commitments to hold, over the next three years, further international meetings aimed at addressing such issues as disarmament, international security and human rights. The Madrid draft agreement also includes the broad declarations of respect for human rights provisions that buttress the Helsinki Final Act. Among the values mentioned: freedom of religion, the right to form free trade unions, and "the freer and wider dissemination of printed matter"-a euphemistic reference to freedom of the press. Said President Reagan of the document: "Together with the Helsinki accords, this agreement sets forth...
Both the advocates and the opponents of capital punishment had statistics to buttress their arguments. Abolitionists noted that since 1965, the number of murders that would have been punishable by death had not increased significantly. Prison guards announced their support for the noose, while prison governors felt executions would only worsen conditions in the tense, overcrowded cell blocks...
...effort to ease church-state tensions, Vatican Spokesman Father Romeo Panciroli deplored the "political interpretations" of events that were "exclusively religious and moral." Before leaving Czestochowa, John Paul also pointedly offered a prayer "for those who wield authority on Polish soil." But he seemed determined to buttress the church's role as the sole mediator between the state and the Polish people. In a special meeting of the Polish episcopate, he urged the church hierarchy to "respond to the need to hear the truth, which is so acute in society." John Paul provided plenty of examples on the remaining...