Word: hollowness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Reagan's professed adherence to the ABM pact rings a little hollow when examined against the backdrop of his Administration's overall attitude toward, and record in, arms control and defense. In looking for a way to protect the planned MX from Soviet pre-emptive attack, civilian and military officials of the Pentagon have seriously considered various schemes for ballistic missile defenses, or BMD, a land-based system of antimissile missiles that would require drastic renegotiation if not abrogation of the 1972 treaty...
Most dangerous of all is the way the president's speech has been shunted aside as hollow rhetoric. If all goes well for the Administration, it will gather the enthusiastic support of conservative religious groups. And while increasingly strident, confrontationist posturing will bring the world closer to nuclear war, millions of people in the countries south of the U.S. will suffer under military rule, with body counts growing every day. All of which should be good for a few more rousing strains of "Onward, Christian Soldiers" at next year's convention of the National Association of Evangelicals...
They yield their posts reluctantly, regretfully, but with deference to the counts of their misjudgment. Not yet has the memory of the Sabra and Shatila horror released itself from Israel's conserence. And never will this moral precedent ring hollow in the car The Kahan Commission and its visible consequences had exposed the world to a country's struggle to embrace democratic ideals...
Pancake shows us the sufferings of his characters unflinchingly: the stories are frank, sometimes brutal. In "The Honored Dead, "we see Eddie's corpse and pieces of another young body in plastic bags. And the protagonists inflict plain as well as suffer it. In "Hollow," the young man Buddy shoots a doe and indressing it cuts into" a swimming lump" an unborn fawn. The boatman in "A Room Forever" knows that he is physically hurting the young girl, "a kid playing whose, "who offers herself to him, but takes her just the same. Brutality isn't used for cheap thrills...
...industry. The business of virtually every major firm has been hurt, and the common estimate is that a 20- to 30- percent excess capacity presently exists. These are hard times for truckers, and Reagan's advice concerning "passing on the tax to the customer" has a decidedly hollow ring in the face of the cutthroat competition engendered by the present situation. It is hardly a surprise that the independent truckers chose to strike or that the ATA and the Teamsters were less than effusive in supporting them. From the trucking establishment's point of view, it wouldn...