Word: expendable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...parts of his story are invented. He notes that a love affair between Senator John Breckinridge of Kentucky and Anna Ella Carroll, a pro-Union pamphleteer, did not really happen. The trouble is, it hardly happens in the narrative either. When Breckinridge and Carroll get together, the passion they expend takes the form of abstract debate: "Two nights before, in her rooms at the Ebbitt House, they had stayed up through the dawn arguing the details of the ( President's war power." So much for titillation...
...cold shoulder given to AIDS research funding is especially offensive given the fatal nature of the disease. When citizens are dying, the nation must expend whatever resources are necessary to ensure their preservation, regardless of personal dispositions. Morally speaking, national defense and public health have the same basis. It is appalling that the question of "whether we should save or let die" should arise in the first place, whereas inquiry into the legitimate needs of the Defense Department is comparatively nonexistent...
Mondale, meanwhile, visited 21 cities and made 22 speeches during the final whirlwind week. He was forced to expend valuable time fortifying core support in such Democratic strongholds as Chicago, New York City and, yes, even his home state of Minnesota. Like Reagan, he reached back to the battle-tested traditions of his own political experience, reveling most notably in the torchlight parade through downtown Chicago that has been an election-year custom for Democrats since 1948. Flanked by the leaders of the city's two feuding factions, Mayor Harold Washington and Alderman Edward Vrdolyak, Mondale basked...
Another Grand Prix winner was Yuri Sedikh, the tanklike Soviet hammer thrower. He seemed to expend more effort in getting to Budapest than in tossing the hammer more than 22 ft. farther than the winning mark in Los Angeles, setting a new world record. After his coach forbade him to participate, he appealed to the Soviet Sports Minister, who allowed him to make the trip. After his triumph, he appeared wistful in an interview. A winning statistic is still only a statistic, and to athletes there remains something magical about a gold medal. Sedikh may have been speaking for several...
Either way, the prospect is unsettling for the White House. Even if Reagan successfully vetoed the congressional action, his victory would be Pyrrhic. Matters probably would not get that far: the Administration has decided not to expend much more political capital defending its policy. Although Reagan publicly appears to be dug in on his Lebanese policy, advisers privately say that he is actively looking for an exit, even if it means abandoning Gemayel. Promised a top adviser: "If Don Rumsfeld comes back and says there is no way Gemayel can put everything together, Reagan will...