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Word: deliverance (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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With the flourish of a man assured of his political popularity and the righteousness of his electoral mandate, the President last week threw down the gauntlet to Congress. Said Ronald Reagan at his press conference: "I am asking Congress today to deliver to my desk before the August recess not...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Big Battles on Two Fronts | 6/29/1981 | See Source »

Outside Israel?and even inside the country?there was an immediate suspicion that the raid and its timing had more to do with Israel's June 30 national election than with impending nuclear threats from the Iraqis. The six-month campaign between Begin's ruling Likud coalition and the opposition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Attack - and Fallout: Israel and Iraq | 6/22/1981 | See Source »

(9 of 12) U.S., could not survive a first nuclear assault and deliver a counterattack. All the country's airbases, for example, could be taken out in a single strike. Nor can Israel afford the enormous expense of keeping warplanes in the air at all times as a deterrent to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Attack - and Fallout: Israel and Iraq | 6/22/1981 | See Source »

The French, however, insist that any diversion of enriched uranium by the Iraqis for bombmaking, or conversion of the reactor for plutonium production would immediately have been spotted by the 150 French technical advisors at Tammuz or by International Atomic Energy Agency inspector charged with enforcing the nuclear nonproliferation treaty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Disputed Target in the Desert | 6/22/1981 | See Source »

This spring, when the Kennedy School of Government was searching for a commencement speaker, the class marshals decided they wanted a prominent government official to deliver the address. Why not, they asked, try President Reagan? He certainly was the type of speaker they were looking for. Besides, it would be...

Author: By Jacob M. Schlesinger, | Title: Running America From Cramped Quarters | 6/4/1981 | See Source »

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