Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...conservative litmus test for campaigners. "There is a current moving out there that politicians will have to respond to," says Weyrich. Warns Jeffrey Bell, an adviser to Congressman Jack Kemp: "Anyone advocating the American Civil Liberties Union line on AIDS will not be acceptable in the Republican nomination fight...
...contras have always had to fight a war on two fronts: at home, against the Soviet-supplied guns of the Sandinistas, and in Washington, against the doubts and fears of U.S. legislators. To some extent they have been caught in a Catch-22. Their failure to win military victories and popular support in Nicaragua has resulted in fitful and inconsistent support from Congress. That has made it difficult for the contras to do more than irritate the Sandinistas. Now, just as the contras seem ready to galvanize their military efforts with a new supply of direct U.S. aid, they find...
...judge might take the better part of a year just to read over the record. Attorney friends have told Carr, who is 60, that he may be senile before he sees a dollar of Monsanto money. "Maybe," he replies, "I was senile when I agreed to get into this fight in the first place...
Kapferer says injured parties should be careful about how they fight back, since some rumors seem irrefutable. As an example, he cites Sheila, a celebrated French pop singer. Her delivery of a baby did nothing to dampen rumors that she was a male transvestite...
...Marxism and fascism. "The Marxian theory of history is essentially a constrained vision," he writes, "with the constraints lessening over the centuries, ending in the unconstrained world of communism." Fascism relies on several key aspects of the constrained vision, "obedience to authority, loyalty to one's people, willingness to fight," but all this under an "unconstrained leader" who feels "no obligation to respect laws, traditions, institutions, or even common decency...