Word: concerns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dark about much of the Iran-contra affair. Playing off a question about the proper role of a "fall guy" protecting a | superior from embarrassment, Regan produced one of the hearings' memorable lines: "I don't mind spears in the breast. It's knives in the back that concern...
...North and Poindexter, who garnered strongsupport around the country when they testified,Rudman said their actions "cannot be justified bypassion, patriotism, appropriate concern over theexpansion of communism in Central America andlegitimate display and the policies enacted byCongress...
These concepts do not mean the same in the Soviet Union as in the West, and their application will certainly remain limited by Western standards. There is cause for concern that an economically rejuvenated Soviet Union would be an even more dangerous military rival than it is now. Yet if glasnost, demokratizatsiya and perestroika result in less repressiveness and more economic security, and if that helps make the U.S.S.R. a better global citizen and the world a safer place -- some very big ifs -- then the West too may benefit from Gorbachev's reforms...
...star makes the papers by dying. A superstar need only be hospitalized: when Sinatra's diverticula act up, you know about it. Higher up the celebrity scale are stars of a magnitude for which we have no adequate word and for whose well-being we can never have enough concern. Sitting monarchs and Presidents, for example. Two weeks ago Ronald Reagan incurred a "small, red bump" on his eyelid (caused by a contact lens). You could read about it on page 3 of the Washington Post. A classic of the genre is an item that ran in the New York...
...would necessarily be fatal to the program, says the outline of a grand compromise is already in place: "No deployment of SDI for ten to 15 years, carefully specified limitations on the testing of components outside the laboratory, and a 50% reduction in offensive weapons carefully contrived to reduce concern about a first strike...