Word: mentioned
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...ignoring American interests," asked a British official, "when we British, the Germans and Italians have just deployed U.S. medium-range missiles in the face of much domestic opposition?" The Paris daily Le Monde noted that French, British and Italian troops are serving beside U.S. Marines in Beirut. Not to mention, said Bonn offi cials, the broad allied support for U.S. policy in southern Africa and Central America. Eagleburger, however, is not finished. He is preparing to give a major speech on the subject in March...
Complete books can and have been written defending, Esperanto against the prejudices it encounters: but without attempting to summarize all the arguments or to formulate comprehensively my own. I may mention two things that to me seem to weigh heavily in its favor. First is the self-evident excellence of the idea of a universal auxiliary language. Second is the demonstrated fitness of Esperanto to serve in that role. I assume that humanists at Harvard can appreciate the first, and that an investigation of the second would lead them at least to sympathy for the movement, if not to active...
Moreover, for many tribes Reagan'a cheerful plans for business development are simply unworkable, given reservations' desolation and isolation. The Navahos of Arizona live on top of $2.5 billion worth of coal, but can't get to it without a $100 million railroad. And this is not to mention the potential envrionmental problems posed by such an endeavor...
...given Mondale's recent attacks on the Reagan administration that he will stick to the easy marks: the policies of the Republicans and the blusterings of his colleague the astronaut. That is why a vote for Jackson, a vote for Hollings, Cranston or even Hart or McGovern, not to mention Askew, is a vote that matters in the long run. Mondale must fight for his own electorate in order to beat. The Great Communicator, for at the moment, a vote for Mondale still seems a vote for Carter. And both because it will not beat Reagan and because...
...Foraday. Their manless solitude is interrupted by the arrival of the Conquistadores, led by Captain Walter Wallcarpeting and the priest Missionary Position. A battle of the sexes ensues, further complicated by the romance of the Queen's daughter, Kitty Litter, and the Captain's son. Jim Panzee, not to mention the songs, dances, and infamous chorus line. The requisite happy ending is accomplished with the help of Kitty's Auntie Emanem and the witch doctor Witch Waysup...