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...Administration did not dismiss that possibility. The President told a business group the day after the raid, "Yesterday the United States won but a single engagement in a long battle against terrorism." But as that battle proceeds, Reagan has made his intentions clear. "We have done what we had to do," he said in his televised address. "If necessary, we shall do it again...
After reading your editorial about George Bush's attempts to negotiate oil price stabilization, I was dismayed by your willingness to dismiss the oil crisis as a problem only of the "fatcat oilmen who have soaked it in for 10 years of high oil prices." Apparently, your editorial writers have watched one too many episodes of "Dallas...
...longer can we dismiss rape as perverts ordeviants dragging their victims into darkcorners," Friend said of the high rate of date oracquaintance rape. "Some of us may have learned toexpect it, but we do not accept it," she said...
Harvard is not the only place where sports have often been used to dismiss the serious concerns of college students. At Berkeley, in 1964, when a large number of students protested what they felt were arbitrary and unfair administrative decisions, a football pep rally threatened to become political counter-demonstration...
...sees himself as a visionary from the desert who is destined to restore Arabs to their lost glory. In his fevered imagination, he expects to succeed in the destruction of Israel and the continued harassment of its principal sponsor, the U.S. "It is too easy and simplistic to dismiss Gaddafi as mad," said a Western diplomat in Tripoli. "He genuinely believes the cause is just, so there's no deflecting him. He'll pursue his fight with the U.S. until he dies...