Word: meres
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Murdoch loves success but disdains mere respectability. Having grown up in Australia's rough-and-tumble journalism, he feels more at home editing a "knockabout" paper (his description) like the New York Post. A canny student of popular prejudices, he plays to resentments and, like press barons of old, prides himself on an intuitive understanding of mass taste. He doesn't aspire to educate or elevate the public, being content to entertain and satisfy...
...encounter last week dramatized a disconcerting truth: not only has television become the controlling factor in the selection of an American President, it also has a life of its own. Television is not a counterreality, exactly, but it is no true mirror either, or mere observer. Sometimes television seems a form of insanity...
...Guatemala accord. Opponents of contra aid say they are simply fulfilling the part that calls for an end to outside aid to insurgents. (Cutting off Nicaraguan aid to the Salvadoran insurgents is left to the appropriate Nicaraguan parliamentary committees.) The Administration, for its part, portrays contra aid as a mere "insurance policy" to save the peace plan in case the Sandinistas renege on their promises...
...whom Wright would most like to assign the conduct of U.S. policy in Central America, is Costa Rican President Arias. He has become the authority for what is right and what is not. With his Nobel aura, Arias has taken on the aspect of a man who has transcended mere politics and national interest...
HOWEVER, equally troubling issues would have emerged had a mere four congressmen switched their nay votes against Reagan's $43 million contra request. The Sandinistas, upon learning of the vote to extend contra aid, surely would have denounced it as sabotaging the peace process. More aid would have allowed them to continue hiding behind the screen that the contra war, and not their own pathetic fiscal mismanagement, is to blame for the searing poverty and economic woes that afflict the Nicaraguan people. The delicate peace accord would have collapsed, and the United States would have been accused by the international...