Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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About 15 years ago, my friend Christy's father, an air force pilot, was killed in an accident. He was training a rookie pilot--training him to fight in a war, to die for his country...
Quoting St. Augustine, "never fight evil as if it arose outside of you," Coffin imagined a super-power summit where the leaders would first admit the sins of their respective administrations, "to take away the self-rightousness" in superpower relations...
This will come as no surprise to longtime Reagan-haters, but it is worth noting in light of the increasing divergence between the Reagan Administration's continuing push for more defense spending and its increasing unwillingness to fight for the supposedly sacred values of democracy and freedom around the world...
...response to the Reagan Administration. Democrats have generally allowed Republicans to frame the political debate in terms of defense spending, which is very different--and the difference is often lost--from foreign policy. Because Democrats want less spending, they are perceived as isolationists--soft on communism, unwilling to fight the Sandinista threat in Nicaragua...
...Talbot D'Alemberte, dean of Florida State University Law School, who chaired the A.B.A. committee that recommended rejection of the A.M.A. proposals. "It's now a legislative battle." Indeed, the politics of protest are already under way. In Massachusetts last week, many obstetricians were refusing new patients in a fight against rising insurance rates. In Georgia, where insurers have requested rate increases averaging 38%, 1,500 doctors marched on Atlanta two weeks ago to shout support for a legislative effort to restrain malpractice lawsuits. Some just say it with a bumper sticker: LET THE LAWYERS DELIVER THE BABIES...