Word: containable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...larger problem has become increasingly clear. Ronald Reagan and some of his top aides, notably the late CIA Director William Casey, came to ! power committed to step up the murky struggle with the Soviet Union in the back alleys of the world. They were determined not just to contain but to roll back what they saw as a pattern of alarming Communist advances. They quickly grew impatient with congressional restrictions and the inbred caution of the State Department, the Pentagon and even the CIA. They turned increasingly to covert operations, including some not subject to the checks and balances...
...constitutions of Eastern Europe bestow supreme power on the Communist Party. While charters from Bulgaria to Poland ring with declarations of human and civil rights, they all contain loopholes that permit governments to set such rights aside should the party so require. Thus many guarantees -- like the widely promised right to complain about government misdeeds without fear of retribution -- are honored mainly in the breach, and supposedly independent courts almost never hand down rulings the party does not like...
...more interesting / and turbulent existence. There the Constitution is not a civic icon but a messy series of collisions that knock together the arrangements of the nation's life. Those arrangements become America's history -- what its people do, what they are, what they mean. Walt Whitman wrote, "I contain multitudes." That is what the Constitution does -- an astonishing feat considering the variety of multitudes that have landed on American shores, and continue to land...
...Waldheim revealed that they had discussed the charges "in a marginal way." Israel condemned the visit, noting that it hurt already fragile ties between Jews and the Vatican. In the U.S., Jewish groups threatened to boycott a meeting with the Pope in Florida next September. Nonetheless, Waldheim could barely contain his satisfaction. Said he: "The fact alone that the Pope did receive me in such a cordial way speaks for itself...
...Gardena, Calif., introduced the first frozen fruit bar nationally eight years ago. But the novelty did not catch on until Dole Food (1986 revenues: $1.7 billion), a division of Castle & Cooke, started selling its own fruit-juice bars three years ago. Frozfruit bars ($2.49 for a box of four) contain chunks of strawberries, pineapples or bananas, while Dole Fruit 'N Juice bars ($2.59 for six bars) come in five flavors, including raspberry and pina colada...