Word: eviler
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...enough. To see this as sufficient cause for a graveside jig, however, is to prove oneself blind to the glaring irony of this new diplomatic development. Reagan sent Bush because he would not stoop to any act, regardless of its diplomatic or humane merits, that might further detente's evil cause. But Bush is far more than a mere executive flunkie. We should all remember, now more than ever, that George Bush ran the Central Intelligence Agency...
...between the adversaries. The uncertain power structure in the Kremlin makes it unlikely that the Soviets will differ substantially from their previous negotiating positions in the suspended INF and START talks in Europe. President Reagan, with his usual obstinate confidence, has assured the American public that the no-longer "evil empire" will return to the negotiating table on its knees and with roses in its teeth. But the truth is that the U.S. must make the first move by softening its stance on Euromissile deployment, an area where we are most politically vulnerable...
...Soviet Union would "take advantage of the opportunities at hand" to improve relations. But what the administration seems to forget is that Andropov was no more the cause of that breakdown than our own gun-toting President: after all, it was Reagan that diplomatically labelled the Soviet Union as "evil empire." The Administration's apparent view that the Russians will suddenly "come around" now that Andropov has died seems dangerously and ludicrously wishful...
...coaches and tournament organizers dismiss the possibility that the consolation game will be eliminated from the tournament altogether. "It's more or less a necessary evil," says Joe Perlmutter, assistant director of events at the Boston Garden...
...often been said that Dostoevsky discovered the 'evil' of 'human nature' in the prison camp, and that this discovery frightened him into an acceptance of a supernatural faith as the sole bulwark of morality against the inherent corruption of mankind ... If any discovery was made, it was rather exactly the opposite: Dostoevsky found that most of the peasant-convicts were far better people than he could possibly have believed at first...