Word: commitment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...attempts to link Nicaragua to Salvadoran rebels. A totally absurd excuse for the U.S. to commit aggression against us. We did not invent the Salvadoran revolution. As recently as 1977, their guerrilla movement was stronger than ours. The Salvadoran revolutionaries do not have military bases here. If they have bases outside El Salvador, they are in Guatemala and Honduras...
...reactionary leaders," Arafat lashed out at him for his mischief making and, more important, was able to portray the mutiny as a result of external interference. Gaddafi has been none too popular with the Palestinian leadership since last summer, when he told Arafat that P.L.O. fighters should commit suicide rather than leave Beirut...
...Like your manifesto, Comrade?" asks one heavyhanded Tory ad, going on to compare eleven points in the Communist Party manifesto with identical ones in Labor's. Among other policies, the manifesto would commit a Labor government to undertaking a hefty and inflationary public spending program, leave the European Community and expel U.S. nuclear weapons from Britain. But so far Labor's crusade has been ineffectual, especially over unemployment, which stands at a postwar high of 13.6%. According to one poll, even voters between 18 and 21, who suffer an especially high jobless rate, plan to vote Tory rather...
...course it's all well and good for America to be completely committed to the defense of Western Europe. The commitment is in our own interest, for one thing, and for all practical purposes has existed for 40 years anyway. But going about it this way is madness. The unrest in Europe and the steady worsening of East/West relations supply abundant proof that the U.S. can no longer maintain this surety while acting as if it does not exist. Andropov's remarks last week once again showed that if the talks fail, the West will have only itself to blame...
Inaccuracy. "Errors of fact do more to undermine the trust and confidence of readers than any other sin we commit. A city editor I knew used to say: 'A story is only as good as the dumbest error...