Word: citings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Yugoslavia, for example, President Bush, Pentagon officials and other military experts have been openly skeptical about what military force can achieve. They often cite fear of being drawn into a "quagmire" as reasons for avoiding the use of force. Secretary of Defense Richard B. Cheney expresses this view with particular vigor. It is apparent that because the situation in Yugoslavia seems so messy--because the prospects of a speedy solution seem uncertain--the president has determined that no action is the right action. But he is wrong...
...Ozzie and Harriet or Leave It to Beaver or The Donna Reed Show. They may even think that family values are something enacted in black and white -- the home returned to after school, the milk and cookies, a rustling of Mother in full stiff skirts. Americans almost never cite books as aide-memoire or illustrations of family values, perhaps because the TV sitcoms of American childhoods tended toward the sunny, whereas the novelists (think of John O'Hara, Philip Roth, John Cheever), if read at all, made their money by prying open American private lives and showing dirty secrets...
...they do so with cautionary words: the Soviet Union may be history, but new dangers abound -- nuclear proliferation, the resurgence of nationalism and the threat of terrorism. "You shouldn't shut the damn door yet," warns Mount Weather's first director, Leo Bourassa. Bud Gallagher, his successor, prefers to cite Plato: "Only the dead have seen...
Supporters of the G.I. Bill cite the problems with the current system of college finance--inefficiency, high default rates and lack of funds for middle class families--as reasons massive overhaul is needed...
Most wearers recently accosted in the Square cite comfort as the main reason for wearing the trendy sandals. The old credo of the fashion-conscious, "It's better to look good than to feel good," appears to falling by the wayside...