Word: diehardism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...diehard proponents of the death penalty, deterrence hardly matters anyway. Declares Buckley: "If it could be absolutely determined that there was no deterrent factor, I'd still be in favor of capital punishment." Taking the lives of murderers has a zero-sum symmetry that is simple and satisfying enough to feel like human instinct: the worst possible crime deserves no less than the worst possible punishment. "An eye for an eye," says Illinois Farmer Jim Hensley. "That's what it has to be. People can't be allowed to get away with killing." Counters Amsterdam: "The answer...
...ruled Rhodesia into black-governed Zimbabwe in 1980 is crumbling. On one side are Prime Minister Robert Mugabe and nearly 6 million members of the Shona tribes; opposing them are Joshua Nkomo, the rival nationalist leader, and the 1.5 million-strong Ndebeles. Mugabe supporters blame the holiday terror on diehard members of Nkomo's ZIPRA guerrilla army, which was disbanded after the nation's seven-year civil war had ended. Nkomo stoutly denies any responsibility for the rebel actions, although he does not rule out the possibility that his supporters might have been acting on their own. Nearly...
...school says: Trade with the Soviets a lot-get them to drink our soda pop, wear our blue jeans, buy our ball bearings and computers and grain-and they'll become more like us and depend more on us. That view is held by some diehard advocates of détente and prominent American businessmen, such as Armand Hammer of Occidental Petroleum and Donald Kendall of Pepsico. The other school says: Don't trade with them at all, blockade them, force them to face up to their problems without the help of our credits and technology and consumer...
...Chinese leaders are hypersensitive on the Taiwan issue partly because they are feeling vulnerable to internal critics of their own. The huge Chinese Communist Party (39 million members) contains diehard Maoists, provincial military commanders who function as virtual warlords and others who oppose Deng Xiaoping's policy of turning to the capitalist world for help. They also accuse him of subjecting China to humiliation over the sale of the new U.S. jets to Taiwan...
...heard reports that his right-wing allies were doubting both his commitment to conservatism and his understanding of the tax bill. When he saw Kemp on TV arguing against the measure, the President asked his staff: "Why don't we meet with these guys again?" So 28 diehard conservatives were brought to the State Dining Room the night before the vote. John Hiler, 29, a first-term Congressman from Indiana, suggested that a no vote would not be disloyal because it was a matter of principle. Reagan reminded Hiler that he had been "out on the mashed-potato circuit...