Word: dumps
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Maybe the U.S. should punish this "Israeli aggression" by dumping Israel, and instead siding with the Moslem nations (even though we already support and trade with most of them, anyway). So we dump a friendly, allied nation in favor of hostile, unstable countries that revel in anti-American, anti-Western, and even anti-Super Power rhetoric: countries, that the record shows, have a history of sticking up for themselves alone, and a propensity for violating alliances and treaties...
...were afraid that the Pentagon would get out front and dump on the mission," said another presidential adviser, referring to anticipated criticism by the military of the Marines' role in Lebanon. Nor did the political strategists relish the prospect of a series of attention-getting disciplinary hearings in an election year...
...gate of the White House last week after a state visit with President Reagan, his limousine was forced to make an abrupt turn to weave its way slowly past a narrow, 3-ft-high stretch of concrete block. The V-shaped barricades took the place of three sand-filled dump trucks that had blocked the gate after threats had been received from Shi'ite groups. These are only the latest in a series of security measures aimed at better protecting the President and fortifying the White House against possible terrorist attacks...
...safeguards were in operation when the President visited Indianapolis to address the National Forum on Excellence in Education. Every downtown intersection near the motorcade's route was blocked off with snowplows, dump trucks and empty buses. The Secret Service also has added a truck of machine gun-ready agents to every motorcade since...
...jury acquitted Lavelle of a more far-reaching charge: lying about using her post to help Republicans get reelected. Despite evidence that she had a special "election track" for cleaning up certain dump sites in key congressional races, the jury believed her assertion that politics, while discussed in her office, did not affect her decisions. At the eight-day trial, Lavelle insisted that she had simply followed Administration policy by negotiating with polluters instead of engaging in lengthy court battles. The Administration, her lawyers charged, had made her a "scapegoat." After the verdict, Lavelle quietly wept. Said...