Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have you yourself responded to the changes in the Soviet Union? We are excruciatingly close to a lasting peace. The cold war is over, Mr. President, and 100 days after inauguration, five months after the election, you say you cannot take substantive action until you receive the results of a report you commissioned. Caution is important, but not at the expense of opportunity...
...those of the Harvard community. According to the Handbook for Students, Harvard aspires to be a "community idealiy characterized by free expression, free expression, free inquiry, intellectual honesty, respect for the dignity of others and openness to constructive change." After four years of contact with the Navy, I cannot fairly say that the NROTC program espouses those values. Any endorsement of a group without similar values weakens Harvard's claims to those defining characteristics...
...have always been, to some extent, polemical. Now that her potential audience has increased many times over, Walker, 45, has become more forthright about the burden of her prose: the horrors that whites have historically imposed on blacks and that men have inflicted on women. Perhaps these lamentable subjects cannot be exaggerated. But in her latest novel, Walker tries...
...political rumble from Gorbachev's tanks will be even more audible once the withdrawal begins. The Soviets are cranking up media coverage, complete with waving children and flowers tucked in the muzzles of tank cannons. But NATO cannot simply ignore the powerful allure of Gorbachev's challenge, despite its own dissensions. The defense ministers have dodged confrontation for now, but the ominous antinuclear trend will be less easily glossed over when the top leaders return to Brussels for next month's summit...
...right to have an abortion during the first three months of pregnancy. In effect, most Americans would treat abortion as something like divorce -- an anguishing decision but not a crime. Pro-life forces want to convince them that abortion is more like murder -- one of those acts that cannot be sanctioned as a choice. As each side flourishes its arguments and passions, its pictures of fetuses and coat hangers, the conscience too can feel set on a collision course with itself...