Word: dampener
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Another group eager to rain on Dukakis' parade is the Republican party. While Vice President George Bush is fishing somewhere in Wyoming, a GOP "truth squad" has been dispatched to Atlanta. Headed by the Republican's foremost hatchet-man, Kansas Sen. Robert Dole, the squad is eager to dampen the spirits of its Democratic rivals...
...past, the P.R.I. has not had to worry much about opposition, and Mexico's immediate future depends on how it meets the challenge. The first test will be how fair the election is perceived to be. Salinas, 40, in an apparent attempt to dampen the energies of zealous party stalwarts accustomed to ballot rigging, has called for an accurate count. If that plea is heeded, most analysts believe, Salinas will capture about 50% of the vote; in 1982 President Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado received 71%. P.A.N., which collected 16% in 1982, is expected to increase its share to more...
When the bureaucrats from State and the National Security Council moved in to dampen the rhetoric, Griscom was there. The call to the Soviets to "tear down the Berlin Wall and all barriers between Eastern and Western Europe" stayed in the text. Griscom dispelled the worry that Reagan would offend his hosts by championing the dissidents gathered around him in Moscow. He never noted the alarm that Reagan might walk through Red Square arguing with Mikhail Gorbachev about whether the world was tilting East or West. Rolling debate with a few sharp elbows was as good a test of glasnost...
...highly selective suppressor of helper T cells. By preventing the activation of the T cells, the drug interferes with the body's instinct to attack a transplanted organ. Yet unlike other suppressants, it does not affect other parts of the immune system. Cyclosporine is thus able to dampen the rejection reaction while leaving a large part of the body's infection-fighting defenses intact...
...Times Co. v. Sullivan. In that case, the court said that a public figure must show that a publication knew its statements were false or had recklessly disregarded the possibility that they might be. Shot through as it was with unstinting references to Sullivan, last week's ruling should dampen speculation that the justices might be ready to reconsider that decision...