Word: canalized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...took from two to seven days to diagnose herpes. Speed is especially important in the case of women who are about to give birth. If the disease is active, doctors generally resort to caesarian delivery since the baby may become infected-often fatally-while passing through the birth canal...
...must have a strategy for the year 2000 or we run the grave risk of living through explosions of right-or left-wing authoritarianism. This requires that the weight of the U.S. must have a positive rather than a negative character. The Americans can say that the Panama Canal is vital to U.S. [security], and no one is going to argue with them. However, for the Panamanian or the Costa Rican in the street that does not justify the price of hegemonic domination by national oligarchies. One cannot say that what is happening in Central America is a fight between...
Reagan began by stressing the strategic importance of the region. "Two-thirds of all our foreign trade and petroleum pass through the Panama Canal and the Caribbean," he said. "In a European crisis, at least half of our supplies for NATO would go through these areas by sea... Because of its importance, the Caribbean Basin is a magnet for adventurism...
...laude graduate of Harvard University and Columbia Law School. Although not considered a heavyweight during his single Senate term, he was a personable and conscientious politician. He had a conservative voting record but, as a member of the Foreign Relations Committee, was a vociferous advocate of the Panama Canal treaties. After working with Reagan as one of three Democrats on his transition team, Stone was defeated in his re-election bid in 1980 and joined the Washington office of a major law firm. Last year Reagan named him vice chairman of the Presidential Commission on Broadcasting to Cuba...
...Juan hills in Cuba was "the great day of my life" and the dispatch with his revolver of a fleeing Spaniard was notable because the Spaniard doubled over "neatly as a jack-rabbit." It was Roosevelt, of course, who bragged as President he "took the isthmus" for the Panama Canal as if it were a pawn on a chessboard...