Word: let
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Western- states speechmaking trip to return to Washington. He quickly conveyed his sorrow and outrage in a phone call to Higgins' wife Robin, a Marine public affairs officer. But throughout the week Bush was careful to apply a lesson that had been painfully learned by Jimmy Carter: never let a hostage crisis appear to consume the presidency. The President went to unusual lengths to create what might be called a mood of concerned normalcy, acting as host at a barbecue for members of Congress, playing tennis, even attending a ball game between the Baltimore Orioles and his son George...
Bush was also considering a military response. About three dozen U.S. warships were dispatched toward Lebanon and Iran. Iran was notified that as the paymaster of the Hizballah, it would be held responsible if any American hostages were harmed. Through a variety of conflicting leaks, the Administration let it be known that if Cicippio was killed, the President was prepared to order an air strike against suspected terrorist bases...
...international isolation, which deprived the country of desperately needed military technology and hardware. In a speech Friday, the new Iranian President was remarkably conciliatory: "I tell the White House, the problem of Lebanon has solutions, the freeing of the hostages has solutions, reasonable, prudent solutions." Rafsanjani offered: "Come let us approach the problem reasonably. We too will help solve the problems there...
...let go of the clean edges and began to work thickly in oils instead of acrylic. The grid of Scully's paintings in the '80s speaks of two things: a desire for large order and a sense of impending slippage, as though the columns and lintels of paint had to be constantly tested, as though their pinning could come apart just as the painter turned his back. They are not smoothly designed but look somewhat improvised, like the sides of large huts. They are very "New York" paintings, but the city they evoke is not the foreigner's imagined grid...
...futures market be? Valukas says the Government's investigation has just begun. At least one guilty plea is expected this week, and new cases may be opened. "We have made a substantial and long-term commitment to ensure the integrity of the markets," says Valukas. "I'll let the convictions do the talking...