Word: closely
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...President? The trial of Lt. Col. Oliver North draws attention to a deafening silence from the White House. What were your ties to the Contras? Did you keep close ties with CIA friends involved in the arms-for-hostages deal? What did you know and when did you know it, Mr. President...
Delays in making appointments have hurt foreign policy efforts. Your administration was caught completely off-guard when leaders of five Central American countries met in February and agreed to close down Contra military bases in Honduras in exchange for holding free and open elections in Nicaragua next year...
...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...
...second singles, Amy deLone lost a close 6-4, 6-4, decision to Pam Piorkowski, while freshman Jennifer Minkus dropped her match 7-6, 6-1, at sixth singles to Chua...
...coda is also counched in lush strings, with Askew contributing a haunting, wordless "Madame Butterfly" type aria. This segues into an instrumental, "Acropolis Now," which begins promisingly as a hybrid between '80s rock and Greek folk guitar, but it begins to maunder soon after and degenerates into a fairly close approximation of a jam session by a forgotten, early '70s band. The side closes with the title track, which reverses the problems of the opening cut; a suitably anthemic chorus is surrounded by a song about a "young boy" named "Johnny" who could "make the young girls...