Word: finall
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Zionist as I do not desire to live in a Jewish state. To me the United States is the modern promised land that allows minorities of all different stripes to flourish and contribute to the world in freedom. I often look at Israel as the ultimate final solution Europeans found to their inability to deal with anti-Semitism. Colonizing Jews on a strip of desert and cutting them off in a hostile region from the European world they helped create is not my idea of fair or wise. Nonetheless I am attracted by the idea of a strong and powerful...
...later Bush turned on Haig with the kind of ferocity that once gave Dole a reputation as a political hatchet man. "Let me turn it around -- what did you tell Nixon during Watergate?" the Vice President jabbed, referring to Haig's service in the White House bunker during the final days. The constricting format of the debate soon forced the Republican contenders to move on to far less electric issues. But the image lingered: Bush lashing...
...final month before the 1988 voting actually begins, Bush has clearly become the dominant -- indeed, virtually the only -- issue of the Republican campaign. That is fine with Dole, who wisecracked his way through the debate and tried to cement his image as a just-folks neighbor from Kansas. He felt no political need to further provoke Bush; his sardonic jabs earlier in the week had been enough to move the race toward a two-man showdown...
...disagreements between those two usually have been on more momentous affairs during their year together. But as they head into the President's final months, Baker is more concerned that "our instincts are too much the same" than that Reagan sometimes goes against his advice. Abrasion is a part of creative politics...
...some reason, perhaps gas leaks in university buildings, many professors believe that they may simply ignore the rules of Reading Period without deference to their students' upcoming final exams. The result is that for many the period after break is even more academically pressured than the normal semester, and by the time finals period arrives, students are left with little time to prepare...