Word: nevertheless
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Nevertheless, the veil of secrecy was quickly and predictably pierced. Two days after the Pentagon's strictures against speculation, the Washington Post reported that Mission 51-C will launch a military-intelligence satellite called a SIGINT (for "signal intelligence"), which can intercept electronic signals. With the information now in the public domain, A.P. promptly ran with its similar story and NBC aired a watered-down version...
...explain what he is doing, much less call attention to his command of technique or to his personality or creative philosophy. He is assuredly an auteur, but not one who uses that status to gain entrée to the talk shows and the rest of celebrity's dubious glories. Nevertheless, Passage has been doing excellent business in the three cities where it has opened in the past two weeks?New York, Los Angeles and Toronto?and it is already being recognized as a major achievement. The New York Film Critics Circle last week named Passage the best movie and Lean...
...problems in the banking industry may adversely affect all Americans. Nevertheless, I derive satisfaction from watching the bankers suffer. For so many years they treated customers with disrespect. Now, with increased competition, perhaps bank officers will realize that being polite makes good business sense...
...parades a kind of sincerity that teeters on melodrama. Symbols are spelled out, symmetries underlined, characters displayed with embarrassing nakedness. Merrick never tires of proclaiming his lower-class origins, and Kumar commits such lines as "I hate ... most of all myself, for being black and being English." Nevertheless, the rippling succession of slow, soft moments gathers such cumulative resonance that the series' conclusion is both shattering and ineffably moving...
...even sunnier. The working paper predicts that if current spending and tax policies remain in effect for the next five years, state surpluses will reach $86.5 billion by 1989. Since such policies will probably be altered to reflect improved balance sheets, the huge surplus "would never actually be realized." Nevertheless, the Treasury report concludes, the states would have "fiscal elbow room" to cut taxes or increase spending and could "comfortably" support current levels of services without raising taxes...