Word: impressionable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Indeed, from reading this biography, one gets the distinct impression that far from not being able to handle the rough and tumble ways of Washington, Fortas was all too good at politics, so good at it that he probably didn't belong on the Court.
Just because today's issues may be more "diffuse" than in the past and can't be as easily reduced to three-word political slogans doesn't mean that we should ignore what the candidates are saying on AIDS or the budget deficit and focus exclusively on Jackson's apparent...
The crime allegedly occurred in late 1986, when GAF had built up a 10% stake in Union Carbide in a failed takeover bid. Sherwin allegedly persuaded Jeffries & Co., a Los Angeles brokerage, to buy Union Carbide stock to create the impression in the market that the issue was increasing in...
It was more than an academic exercise. Early in the campaign, Dukakis argued that Gorbachev had agreed to the treaty eliminating intermediate-range nuclear - weapons in Europe because of domestic economic pressures, not because of NATO's deployment of its own missiles. That woolly assertion contributed to the impression that...
"We will not countenance any impression thatthis is a payment to the government or anadmission of liability or is in response to anyother external pressure or external internationalpolitical condition between our two countries,"White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater said.