Word: laments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Soon after seeing Chairman Agrava's minority report, First Lady Imelda Marcos apparently remarked, "Poor nation. I cry for the nation. The nation is beautiful." That paradoxical lament seemed a perfect summary for the anguishing morality play that had just concluded for most Filipinos. Had justice in the Aquino case finally been served? Yes and no. The Agrava board showed itself to be unswerving, but much of its hard work could yet be overturned in the courts. Could the opposition claim a triumph? In part. It had managed to force the temporary departure of Ver, but the general...
...production is only as old as the century: in that brief span the car has probably changed our lives as much as any invention in all the previous epochs. It was time that some courageous museum looked in the rear-view mirror and mounted a show to celebrate and lament those alterations. The exhibit is called "Automobile and Culture," and it is housed in the new Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA...
...just 20 years, terrorism, communications, the jet plane and the increase of wealth and knowledge have forced, to varying degrees, world leaders into a haunted and secret peerage whose links with the people they guide are meticulously cleansed and staged. All of them lament this fact, from the Pope to the Prince of Wales, and none more than Ronald Reagan on his Old World pilgrimage, but they know their new age of isolation is nevertheless a stark fact of life...
...many journalists and occasional guests on "Nightline" believe that the show provides an exception to the familiar lament that television news too superficial. They believe that "Nightline" at once both "entertains and educates," says Donald say, the Chief Judge of the 8th Circuit of the United States Court of Appeals, who recently appeared with Koppel on "Viewpoint," a semi-regular "Nightline" variation that examines the press...
...Nicaraguans lament the 1979 overthrow of Anastasio Somoza Debayle and his right-wing dictatorship, of course, but many of the peasants of Nueva Segovia oppose the Sandinistas strongly enough to support the contra cause at great risk. Those who are caught aiding the guerrillas are often killed by the Sandinistas. The contras can be equally brutal when they uncover Sandinista informers or seize enemy troops. "If we capture them in a fight and they have no more ammunition, then they must die," said a subcomandante known as Pelón. "That shows they were trying to kill us and gave...