Word: lone
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...foreign involvements, especially in Latin America, he rejects Reagan's "lone cowboy" approach and prefers to act in concert with allies and comply with international...
...lone dissenter was Justice Antonin Scalia, who took the unusual step of summarizing his dissent aloud. In a lengthy argument that contained an acid reference to "our former constitutional system," he suggested that even the slightest diminution of Executive power by Congress is unconstitutional. If the Executive Branch cannot be trusted to investigate itself, he asserted, the voters and not Congress should remedy the situation...
...lone Latino breakthrough on the networks for next season: Benjamin Bratt, the part-Hispanic actor who starred in Juarez, will play one of the leads in Knightwatch, a new ABC series about a community crime-fighting group. "It's absurd that we don't have one half-hour of Hispanic-themed programming on network television," complains Marin. "We can make stuff as bad as the stuff that's on." Says Rodriguez: "There is no lack of talent in our community, but we are waiting for gringos to toss us a crumb...
...made illegal, he loses his way. His usual sympathy for the underdog gives way to the kind of careless (one is tempted to say, heartless) cynicism so regrettably familiar to all of us. In his brief chapter on school prayer, he makes light of the "emotions" of the lone dissenting child who, because of his doubts about God deprives others of the right to pray for theirs...
...observer. The county seat of Prineville (pop. 5,250) is a "detour down a back road," to lift a line from a country ballad popular there. Lumber trucks and pickups rumble through the town's four traffic lights, which feel the strain of traffic only during hunting season. The lone presidential candidate to visit the county was John Kennedy, in 1960. Such splendid isolation breeds self- sufficiency and a pervasive distrust of government. "We don't expect a lot," says Lewis, who has not raised the price of a $5.50 haircut in three years. "Most of us would rather...