Word: easier
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...offensive line has a lot of experience, and it's helped me a lot," adds the American History concentrator. "It hasn't been easy, but they've made it easier...
Similarly, it was easier for Mondale to harp on the controversy over the CIA manual on political assassination in Nicaragua than to specify exactly how, where and when covert action is a legitimate instrument of American policy. Mondale also tried to harass Reagan on the issue of responsibility for the bombings in Lebanon rather than tackle the broader, more difficult and more important question in the Middle East: not how to protect embassies from terrorists, but how to advance the Arab-Israeli peace process...
...tapping of telephone conversations has long been recognized as a security threat, and the rise in microwave and satellite transmission of conversations has made electronic eavesdropping easier than ever. Yet even though all Presidents since Franklin Roosevelt have conducted much of their business over secure, or scrambled, phone lines, the U.S. has been bewilderingly slow in dealing with another potentially enormous security problem: most Government and business officials daily discuss sensitive matters over ordinary, unsecured equipment...
...Meaning of Life, it is an excellent idea to maintain your good nature while pursuing the quest. It smooths out the highs (the inevitable lamasery in the Himalayas) and the lows (a stint of hard labor in a French coal mine), and it makes the earnest pilgrim a lot easier for his friends (not to mention the movie audience) to take. Besides, playful self-deflation suits Bill Murray, who only did Ghostbusters in return for a shot at the second screen version of Somerset Maugham's most gaseous novel. The laid-back eccentricity of his Larry Darrell disrupts...
...SEARCH for moderate solutions to Central America's multiple woes is tricky business, none the easier when the chief protaganists continue to rely on extremist tactics to force maximalist ends. The rhetorical heat rising out of both the United States and Nicaragua of late has only served to obscure the peace-destroying policies of the two adversaries: on the part of the Reagan Administration, bristling militarism, and from the Sandinista regime, increasing political repression. Surprisingly enough, it is in El Salvador, that supposed hotbed of extremism, where the sides are suddenly talking conciliation and understanding. And while the sudden rush...