Word: nevertheless
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Nevertheless, the specter of a violent chemical explosion is very real. Late in November, for example, Mexico suffered its worst industrial calamity when a series of gas tanks exploded in San Juan Ixhuatepec, a suburb of Mexico City, killing 452 people...
Anyone who has so much as balanced a checkbook could have told the President that when he cut taxes but dramatically increased military spending he was paying the way for fiscal disaster. Nevertheless, he foolishly clung to the pipedreams of the supply sides who prophesied that cutting taxes would somehow magically increase government revenue. One discredited theory and $200 billion worth of red ink later, it is the less privileged who are paying for the President's foolhardy mistakes...
...that fuel would spill and be given a good chance to burn: the wings were shredded by 400-lb. blades that protruded from the Mojave Desert like giant can openers, and the landing surface was coarse gravel meant to throw off sparks as the plane slid along. Nevertheless, researchers were betting against the big fires that charred most of the plane and burned holes in its fuselage...
...Starzl, a noted transplant surgeon at the University Health Center in Pittsburgh, argues that "the cost of transplants is no higher than the cost of dying from severe diseases of vital organs." A patient can run up expenses of $250,000 before getting a liver transplant, Starzl points out. Nevertheless, the prices of organ transplants remain staggering: heart transplants cost somewhere between $100,000 and $200,000 (Clark's hospital bill was $200,000, not counting $9,000 for the artificial heart, $7,400 for its pump, and the $3,000 or so per year that it would have cost...
...Republican Party of this. They see the election as a clear mandate for the hard-line Reagan and for their more extreme goals. Nor will the right wing necessarily hesitate to attack the President if it considers him too weak, especially because he will be increasingly a lame duck. Nevertheless, he remains a hero to a majority of Americans, and his anti-Communist credentials are so strong that the country at large would have a hard time accepting the notion that he had gone soft...