Word: litmus
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...retrospect, there was a road not taken. A trip-wire force could have been lodged in Saudi Arabia, to serve America's initial goal of deterring an invasion, and the sanctions continued nearly forever. Kuwait would be remembered, but its liberation would not have become the high-profile litmus test of U.S. resolve. That option existed until November, when the allied presence was characterized as an offensive force and the United Nations deadline of Jan. 15 was imposed...
Still, Ranke-Heinemann is not a litmus-test feminist. Although some feminist cults yearn for paganism to supplant Judaism and Christianity, Ranke-Heinemann contends that Catholicism went wrong when it spurned the healthy outlook of the Jewish Bible and absorbed hostility toward sex from certain pagan groups. On abortion, she notes that ancient Judaism and Christianity joined in opposing the pro-choice stance of paganism. Her fury is aimed only at the official Catholic teaching that it is better to let a pregnant woman die than to perform an abortion...
...antics of Afro-Am demonstrators also raise doubts about the intentions of would-be student participants in the presidential search. Just whose "concerns" would student selectors raise during the process? No doubt, they would be pressured to evaluate candidates according to a political litmus test cooked up by campus activists...
...litmus test of that work came last year, when the relatively inexperienced junior was thrust into the starting spotlight. She registered victories over Yale and Brown in her very first starts...
...applying such liberal litmus tests ascapital punishment (Weld is in favor of it) toMedicaid (he wants to trim it), left-leaners havefound the former U.S. attorney too far to theright for their liking...