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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...combative statement the same evening, Prime Minister Menachem Begin threatened more of the same. Said he: "We will not tolerate a Syrian takeover in Lebanon, and we will not let the Syrians wipe out the Christians there. There are grounds to assume that we will not be content with this action...
...report concludes that there has been a fundamental change in the attitude of the federal government towards helping those who cannot help themselves: whereas before the federal government took from the more fortunate to help the less fortunate, it is now content to let people move out of the cities if the cities cannot help them, the report states...
...game--a furious overcompensation--for one to watch a soap opera and then be able to find intelligent reasons for the act later in the week on the pages of our slick arbiter of taste. Either way, it jars. Somehow it smacks of elevating the form without changing the content. Who knows? Maybe Chekhov would have watched the Iowa State Opera's version of "Boris Gudonov" complete with introduction by a genuine Russian. Then again, our ultimate pop icon Elvis Presley probably was closer to popular sentiment when he plugged his Sony with a .38, explaining to his manager...
Last week, the ruggers were smug, even arrogant, content to lounge around in their newly-won jackets, drinking their favorite beer out of their favorite mugs. You might say they had a right to be--after 18 straight victories, an Ivy League trophy, and a trip to the National Championships...
...liberal senator told an audience of more than 200 at the Kennedy School of Government that "we have a new administration which too often seems content with old injustices," and warned that "the advances of a decade could be wiped out in the few short weeks it would take to impose new schemes of discrimination...