Word: following
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...said he instructed building superintendents after the accident to "by all means follow procedure, but be alert beyond that...
...mistake to focus on these questions. Dismissing Kennedy's idealism as a vote-getting ploy has given people false confidence in dismissing his message. And so we choose an easy out--taking refuge in our own sophisticated pessimism. But if we follow this path, we condemn ourselves to a world without ideals...
Defense spending comes back to haunt the U.S. in two ways. Money spent on arms can't be spent on needed economic development. This leaves American companies lagging behind competitors whose governments follow a strategic industrial policy, and not just a strategic defense policy. At the same time, America also depends on foreign investors, especially the Japanese, to finance the deficit created by oversized defense outlays. This steals incentive and opportunity from American investors...
...vague stump speeches with more specifics. This means converting his pleasant-sounding concepts -- such as a "real war on drugs" and "comprehensive day care" -- to realistic programs complete with price tags. He also owes voters a credible explanation of how he will curb the federal deficit. If his follow-up sounds as expensive as his promises are expansive, Dukakis may alienate the moderate voters who put Reagan in the White House but are now skeptical about Bush...
When Clarice Conley was nine years old, her mother and grandmother began the initiation. Dressed in her finest, shoes shiny, gloves pristine, she was allowed to follow them through the heavy oak doors of the Highland Park Ebell Club in the hills of northeastern Los Angeles. In the cavernous main hall, surrounded by distinguished ladies with brows aloft, she listened to dramatic readings, or speeches on art or tropical Brazil. The children even had a dining room all their...