Word: importantally
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Turmoil in federal AIDS policymaking is anything but new, according to Shilts. His book quotes extensively from internal memos at CDC and the Department of Health and Human Services to show that the very officials who testified before Congress that research scientists had all the money they needed to pursue...
Bork's opponents, in the meantime, were putting together a megacoalition of civil rights, women's and liberal groups for a vigorous public crusade against him. Some of the attacks involved distortions of his record and implications that he was personally biased against blacks and women. But the most significant...
Such a showdown could invigorate, at least temporarily, a presidency that has recently been creeping along like a paraplegic duck. The conciliatory approach Reagan used in pushing Bork was similar to the strategy he pursued with his ambivalent support for the Central American peace plan and his reluctant compromise on...
Bork is resigned to the near impossibility of his confirmation. His refusal to withdraw was a protest against the efforts to depict him as a right-wing ideologue. More important, he saw the quixotic effort as a way to defy the politicization of the confirmation process. "For the sake of...
That overseas prowess is not dependent solely on sales of such consumer products as BMWs and Bordeaux wine. Other important export categories range from chemicals and pharmaceuticals to industrial machinery and office equipment. Europe's proudest achievement, perhaps, is its new prominence in aerospace. Airbus, the aircraft consortium backed by...