Word: compliments
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...highest compliment comes from Walter Mondale. He goes around the nation saying, though not in so many words, that the broad themes of Reagan's presidency (less Government at home, more strength abroad) are correct but that Reagan has executed them badly and often unfairly. Mondale is absolutely right...
...Center Uliana Semenova, who led the way. Now, in 6-ft. 3-in. Forward Cheryl Miller of U.S.C., America at last has a player who can dunk and who has the elbows-out style to say, and mean, "In your face." Men and women alike pay her a compliment that even feminists could approve: in the words of her friend Magic Johnson of the Los Angeles Lakers, "That lady plays like...
Women's groups, however, were less excited about the backhanded compliment...
...Fabius' appointment were mixed. Said Bernard Pons, secretary-general of the neo-Gaullist party: "The Communists have just said today, down to the last comma, what we have been repeating for three years: the government's economic and industrial policy is a failure." But in a backhanded compliment to Fabius, Republican Party Leader François Leotard noted that Mitterrand had chosen "one of the best. We must not underestimate our adversary...
Although the UCLA appointment begins this fall, Wilson said he would he teaching his full compliment of courses at least for the first semester, but that if everything is approved he would begin splitting his time between Cambridge and Low Angeles, spending one semester on each coast...