Word: ende
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Noting growing support for his efforts to overturn the act, Frank predicted that "by the end of this Congress, we will have repealed the anti-gay and lesbian exclusion of the McCarren-Walter...
Babbit, for one, called for the end of the Presidential primary system that gives the conservative votes of the state to our immediate north incredible clout. Opposition to this unrepresentative method of electing our presidents is a position advocated by everyone concerned with politics--everyone, that is, except for those who ever hope to become president...
BABBIT is a smart, thoughtful, articulate politician. Even so, during his speech entitled, "The End of Idealism," I couldn't get the picture out of my head of Jimmy Stewart as the Mr. Smith who went to Washington. The particular comparison with Stewart I would make was more like the famed actor's stump speech after the sequel, Mr. Smith Goes to the White House, which didn't do well at the box office. (As it turns out, unfortunately for this prissy good-government scenario, Babbit is now a Capitol Hill lobbyist for a group of healthy savings and loans...
...state police lined up, so I said, 'Send them in.' They did. And they cleared right out. That was the end of that...
...Harvard did not have a ROTC program, I would have attended the Naval Academy. I am not in the program for the money but for the opportunity to serve and defend my country. I understand that not everyone believes that the military is the right means for such an end, and many here at Harvard see such attitudes as loyalty and patriotism as hackneyed, but I do not feel that they should have the right to discriminate against me as a student simply because my beliefs differ from theirs. Should I have to start checking out the attitude a professor...