Word: lying
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Tamils and all the others, until India would be reduced to a cluster of tiny independent countries? How naive to imagine that the Soviets and Chinese would respect India's borders. It is a case of united we stand, divided we fall. American as well as Indian interests lie in a unified, strong, democratic India...
...Administration has been at odds with itself over compliance since its first days in office. In his initial press conference as President, on Jan. 29, 1981, Reagan said the Soviets "reserve unto themselves the right to commit any crime, to lie, to cheat." Among the newly appointed officials who took that statement very literally was David Sullivan, a former CIA analyst who had made a career of documenting alleged Soviet violations of SALT. He served briefly in the ACDA in the State Department building...
Hidden in all of this, embedded and often engulfing her narrative, Lurie reveals her own love of writing, an old-fashioned and well-honed gift for the clever phrase and the apt insight. "To take off all your clothes and lie down beside some unclothed larger person is a terribly risky business. The odds are stacked almost as heavily against you as in the New York State Lottery. He could hurt you: He could laugh at you; he could take one look at your naked aging body and turn away in ill concealed, embarrassed distate. He could turn...
...preserve the existing social and political order, blocking changes necessary to prevent recurring disaster. The alternative is not, as some have suggested, leaving "tolerable" levels of poverty to spark development; Ethiopia is, in many respects, too weakened to respond to "pressures" of that grisly nature. Nor does the solution lie in Indira Gandhi-like methods of population control. Unless the need for large families to increase agricultural production is alleviated by more efficient methods, the root cause will persist...
...equity demands--that complementary thoughts may occur in young female minds?) It is desirable to try to make all who think such thoughts feel guilt, a dangerous emotion? Surely, no one proposes action to prevent students from privately discussing such things? Did not the real fault in that incident lie with those who, stumbling accidently on what was clearly a private missive, chose to make it public? Do we want to encourage eavesdropping in an effort to cleanse the College of salaciousness? I find the former almost always offensive, while I often enjoy the latter (though not in the case...