Word: fairings
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...first foreign heads of state to be received by the new U.S. President. Richard Walker, a former U.S. Ambassador to Seoul, recently described the 1985 South Korean parliamentary elections, which were criticized by many observers as having been weighted in the government's favor, as "generally free and fair." The current U.S. ambassador, former CIA Official James R. Lilley, testified at his Senate confirmation that he regarded South Korea's national security as more important than democratic reforms. The Reagan Administration, its critics say, urges Chun to move toward democracy but fails to complain when he refuses to budge. Said...
Justice Antonin Scalia, joined by Chief Justice William Rehnquist, sharply dissented. The two latest Reagan appointees argued that the Louisiana law was a valid attempt to let students decide "for themselves, based upon a fair presentation of the scientific evidence, about the origin of life." They attacked the majority for believing that any government requirements restricting the teaching of evolution "must be a manifestation of Christian Fundamentalist repression." The dissenters said this majority "predisposition" was "created by the facts and the legend" of the Scopes case...
Your official commencement speaker tackles the big themes, tells you to abjure greed, to play fair, to serve your community, to know thyself. Your more personally devoted commencement speaker agrees with all that...
...motives or those of her boss, Lieut. Colonel Oliver North, were challenged, she flashed both anger and fear. "Sometimes you have to go above the written law," she blurted out. Then, apparently hearing the gasps in the audience, she retreated. "Maybe that's not correct; it's not a fair thing...
...took a job as a bookkeeper to help pay the bills. Volcker's son James now works for a bank in New York City, and his daughter Janice, who lives in Virginia, is a nurse. In a recent interview in the Washingtonian magazine, Volcker admitted, "It ain't quite fair to leave a family sitting out there ((when)) you obviously have the possibility of assuring a little more comfort than I have done so far." One sign that Volcker was ready to make major changes in his life-style came March 18: he gave up his trademark 28 cents Antonio...