Word: cravenness
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There are few more abject sights than that of Congress surrendering to interest-group pressure. But even by the craven standards of Capitol Hill, it was striking when the House voted 360 to 66 last week to rescind the Medicare catastrophic health-insurance program that it had lopsidedly approved amid a self-congratulatory frenzy just last year. The Senate showed enough moxie to save fragments of the plan, but it too voted to kill a special income-tax surcharge (up to $800) that would have been levied solely on the affluent elderly to help fund the program...
...everything over for some handsome rotter or an insincere promise of love and security. Starlady Sandra knows that her new passion will demand the suppression of her lively intelligence: "If only I can hold my tongue I might yet be the one he keeps in his bed, for ever. Craven, yes indeed, but there it is. My female lost to his male...
...video agencies and documentary makers in Western Europe. Some of the taped footage is smuggled out of South Africa. "Journalists who work for us are willing to take incredible risks to get their stories out because they know we are willing to put them on the air," says Carolyn Craven, senior producer and co-anchor...
...production, which will reopen April 7 at the Los Angeles Theater Center, Roscoe Lee Browne does an impressive star turn as the "conjure man" Bynum. But that is not the star role, and his vocal legerdemain only distracts from the inadequate James Craven as the play's emblem of unjust suffering, Herald Loomis. The visionary fit at the close of the first act and the self- mutilation at the finale, which terrified Broadway audiences, brought titters in San Francisco...
Right-wingers attacked Danie Craven, head of the Rugby Board, for meeting with A.N.C. leaders. State President P.W. Botha also denounced the get- together. Yet some government leaders were privately pleased that the A.N.C. had dropped an antiapartheid line that declared, "There can be no normal sport in an abnormal society." The A.N.C., for its part, demonstrated a willingness to bargain, undermining the government's contention that the group is dedicated only to violence...