Word: neutralize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...eveidently intended to support a position, not weigh a question. Reading it is something like reading Erik von Daniken on the visits of spacemen to Earth during the Stone Age--enjoyable and enlightening if you already believe, irritating if you don't, amusing and not particularly illuminating to the neutral reader. It is impossible to deny the sense in much of what Strenio says; it is equally impossible, though, to miss the shallowness, oversimplification and inconsistency that often flaws his logic...
...shame that only at the very end of what had been a 321-page neutral magazine article filled with cold description, does Anderson finally take a position and comment on the justified rage we should feel over the marijuana story. Even without commentary we can glean from the accounts of Stroup's exploits that a major miscarriage of justice is being kicked around like any other political football. In fact, High in America will probably appeal to the straight-as-an-arrow gov major who is interested in the story of a political entrepeneur like Keith Stroup...
America's potential enemies-most significantly the Soviet Union-are stronger and bolder than ever before. America's friendships, meanwhile, are increasingly strained, its alliances increasingly divided. The U.N. General Assembly and some other international forums are dominated by supposedly neutral nations that ritually criticize U.S. policies and reject U.S. sponsored initiatives. Pro-Western regimes in the Third World appear vulnerable to revolt and subversion. The U.S., and to a far greater extent its allies in Western Europe and Japan, depend for their very survival as economic powers on oil supplies from one of the most flammable regions...
...Crimson squad returned home mildly disappointed, having missed an opportunity of a rematch with arch-rival Princeton on neutral grounds, after last weekend's 3-6 loss to the Tigers. But Coach Dave Fish said after the tournament that the Crimson showed a "mental toughness and physical endurance" that has been lacking in earlier performances this season...
...guilt in strong terms, but with the election campaign going poorly for him and with the outbreak of all-out war between Iran and Iraq over an old border dispute, there was severe pressure on both sides to end the hostage ordeal. Carter said that the U.S. was strictly neutral in the war but hinted that spare military parts might be delivered to Iran if the hostages were let go. Prime Minister Raja'i unexpectedly flew to New York and complained to the U.N. that Iraq's belligerence was inspired by the U.S. But the fact was that...