Word: handly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Campaigning in New Jersey, Dukakis sought to capitalize on this advantage: he walked with a hand-held microphone among 500 students at the Pine Brook Junior High School in Manalapan to preach an antidrug sermon. At a later press conference, he once again criticized the Reagan Administration for cutting funds for antidrug programs...
...battalions of President Hafez Assad's elite Special Forces commandos, crouched behind barricades ringing the Shi'ite Muslim slums. Since May 6, fierce battles between rival militias had raged through the streets and alleys, causing many of the area's 250,000 residents to flee. In bloody hand-to-hand combat, the fanatical, pro- Iranian Hizballah had driven the more moderate, Syrian-backed Amal out of its positions and seized control of some 90% of the district...
Assad had mobilized for a possible intervention after Hizballah began to get the upper hand in the fighting. Reason: a total victory by the Islamic militants would threaten Syria's long-standing goal of controlling Lebanon's territory and dominating its domestic politics. Considering Lebanon to be a kind of buffer zone safeguarding Syria's own security, Assad has some 25,000 Syrian troops deployed around the country, in part to prevent Hizballah and Iran from turning it into an Islamic republic...
...wish for a competitive men's basketball team on occasion, or a football squad to crack the top-20, we should at the same time realize that for Harvard to be competitive in those sports would require the school to hand out scholarships and significantly lower its admissions standards. Top academic schools like Duke and Stanford have chosen to do that, but I firmly believe that Harvard should...
...society, the term professional is used to distinguish one achievement, or one achiever, from another. There are some people and some qualities we favor, time and again. We support our hand-picked favorites with money, or with attendance at college sporting events, or with newspaper coverage. We enjoy the positive reinforcement of shared values...