Word: defeats
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...Margaret Thatcher's huge election victory in Britain ought to be a warning to our Democratic Party in 1984. The parallels between the left-wing Labor Party in the United Kingdom and the socialistic viewpoints expressed by some liberal Democrats in this country will lead to a resounding defeat for the Democrats next year...
...President says that poor people must sacrifice. But what happens when Democrats say it's time for the rich to sacrifice? The President cries, 'Foul!' " Grumbled House Speaker Tip O'Neill: "It may have been a victory for the President, but it was a defeat for fairness." Senate Republican leaders delayed the vote to enable Reagan, at his televised press conference on Tuesday, to make the G.O.P. pitch. Insisting that the Senate preserve the third and last stage of his 25% tax-rate cut, he said, "Fairness is not slapping tax increases on 2.4 million small...
Alexander's attempt to withstand his restraints placed on him by his stereotypically devilish stepfather (Jan Malmsio) is vividly etched as the Bishop beats him while trying to defeat his rebelliousness. Throughout his trials to escape his stepfather. Alexander is visited--or rather haunted--by the ghost of his father--who, ironically enough, died while paying Hamlet's father. But Alexander never becomes Hamlet and his mother never truly becomes the deluded Gertrude. Instead, Alexander withstands his father's appearance, and his mother fights for her own escape. Through the semi-occult figure of Grandmother Helena's former lover...
...would be difficult to control and the most probable result would be swift escalation. It is relatively unimportant how the "nuclear threshold" is crossed-as a result of a preventive nuclear strike or in the course of a war fought with conventional weapons, when a country is threatened with defeat, or simply as a result of an accident. In view of the above, nuclear weapons only make sense as a means of deterring nuclear aggression by a potential enemy. Nuclear weapons cannot be viewed as a means of restraining aggression carried out by means of conventional weapons...
DIED. William E. Miller, 69, seven-term New York State Republican Congressman and lawyer, who ran for Vice President of the U.S. on Barry Goldwater's ill-fated 1964 ticket; of a stroke; in Buffalo. After the defeat, Miller returned to Lockport, N.Y., and obscurity, re-emerging briefly in a 1975 American Express card commercial ("Do you know me?") for which he is at least as well remembered nationally as for his political career...