Word: morasses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When a nation is caught in a moral morass of such proportions, the only appropriate action is to repudiate and reverse the policies that have led us into it. W must end the war, doing all we can to achieve a settlement that will avoid further bloodshed and allow the peoples of Indochina to rebuild their shattered societies. It is clear, and has becomes increasingly so, that the policy of Vietnamization will not end the war, nor even American involvement in it. By substituting air power for ground troops, it may reduce American casualties and thus, perhaps, make...
...Here we go again. All the prerequisites for musical success are outlined there-confusion, insecurity, alienation, drug affliction. How ironic that this morass of self-pity is to be preferred over adult hang-ups. Oh, for the shaggy innocence of I Want to Hold Your Hand...
...Morass of Confusion. The causes of the chaos were multiple. The 91st Congress was in its dying days, and its weary members were clearly disgruntled that it had lasted so long; they yearned impatiently to break away from the capital and enjoy the holidays with the rest of the nation. Ambitious Senators were fighting to save or to kill bills on which their reputations were riding. Time was too short to pass even the measures that a majority clearly favored; in the crunch it was easy for a few men to thwart the will of the rest. At the same...
While the parliamentary skirmishing degenerated into a morass of confusion in which nothing seemed certain to pass, the basic issues at stake were sharply etched. In order of diminishing intensity of feeling, they came down to a classic confrontation over free trade, a sweeping reform of federal welfare programs, funding of a supersonic jet transport aircraft, and limitations on the President's power to authorize U.S. military operations in Cambodia. With only a few more scheduled working days, this is how those issues stood...
Some critics have considered the symbolic protest embodied in Campaign GM and other proxy fights to be a futile and clumsy type or melodrama. The guidelines can become a hopeless morass, as they did last year at Princeton. The Malkiel Report tried to evaluate the school's investments in companies operating in South Africa. This Princeton effort illustrates the complexity of drawing up moral criteria to judge the different ranges of financial involvement in South Africa. Directly or indirectly, the committee found, almost every company in the portfolio was contaminated-companies which had affiliates or subsidiaries operating in South Africa...