Word: excepts
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Before cracking down, the INS could have at least waited for Congress to clarify the bill during its next session. Allowing temporary legal residents to remain in the country until Congress reconsiders their status hurts no one--no one, that is, except nativists. In enforcing what it sees as the letter of the law, the INS contemptuously flouts its spirit and demonstrates that it has an ax to grind...
...military's role in the revolution. We mounted a military revolt against President Marcos. The people supported us, as we expected. The leaders of the opposition were not there; they only appeared on the last day. At that point we had complete control of the republic's military organization, except for a few units. President Marcos was already dealing with us. He was not dealing with the opposition. We could have effectively run the country at that point. In fact, we were exercising governmental powers. Only then did they (the opposition) appear at our camp. We readily and willingly transferred...
Does this mean we are about to witness a long string of Administration defeats in Congress? No. First, in terms of sheer bulk, there is not much that President Reagan wants from Congress except to protect the gains achieved largely in the first year, which is a much easier task to accomplish than policy initiation. He has the smallest domestic legislative agenda of any President in the post-war era, and whatever rhetoric he has committed to social issues like prayer in the schools and the prohibition of abortions, they have never been serious interests of the Administration. Second...
Less government as better government, depending on who is the beneficiary, is the enlightened businessperson's perspective: progressive on social issues and conservative on fiscal matters, except where it is business that needs help (as in tariffs to fight foreign competition, bailouts for Chrysler or anyone else that big in trouble, and training programs for new employees). It will sell in Des Moines and Atlanta, although perhaps not in Detroit or Austin...
...encounter was not merely a reunion between two long-lost comrades. For nearly a quarter-century, the Chinese and East Europeans have been bitter ideological enemies. All East bloc governments except Rumania froze relations with China in the early 1960s, following Mao Tse-tung's falling out with Moscow over doctrinal disagreements. Honecker's trip to China last week was the first formal state visit by a Warsaw Pact Communist Party chief since that chilly era, and it signaled what Hu called a "new phase" in relations between the two countries. It came less than a month after a more...