Word: nevertheless
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...into by an unknown hacker. Last week Mitre Corp., a Massachusetts-based defense contractor, warned the Pentagon that someone had gained unauthorized access to Mitre's system, which is linked to the Arpanet network. Fortunately, the invader had access only to nonclassified material, and none of it was damaged. Nevertheless, the Defense Department severed Milnet's connection to Arpanet until software experts could come up with...
...years. The much needed cleanup will not begin immediately: the final wording of the agreement is still being hammered out in a federal-court consent decree that must be approved by a judge, and the $50 million detoxification job is expected to take from two to five years. Nevertheless, Ohio officials were especially pleased that the Reagan Administration has agreed to abide by Ohio environmental regulations, some of which are more stringent than federal rules. Said Governor Richard Celeste: "It could become a model for other tough cases that we're wrestling with...
According to a recent Gallup poll, 37% of the voters in last month's presidential election were dissatisfied with the choice between George Bush and Michael Dukakis. Nevertheless, not many of them opted for any of the 17 other candidates who were also vying for the White House. Unofficial figures for the third-party alternatives released last week by the Associated Press show that the top vote getter was Libertarian Ron Paul with 409,412, followed by the New Alliance Party's Lenora Fulani with 201,430. "None of the above" came in eleventh by earning 6,923 ballots nationwide...
...Nevertheless, the claim that America lost something with Kennedy's death serves as a convenient--and misleading--excuse for explaining why America has had problems in the past quarter century. It is a wonderful scapegoat for national leaders or policymakers unable to solve major problems, whether they be poverty, the deficit or international terrorism...
...Nevertheless, a Bush peace initiative would have a chance. His stump speech avoided personal attacks on Hill leaders. When Dukakis started scoring heavily on Ed Meese and sleaze, Bush countered with a call for an investigation of House Majority Leader Jim Wright, but quickly dropped the matter after Meese resigned. Similarly, even while his old Texas friend Lloyd Bentsen was attacking him daily on the stump, often in intimate terms, Bush avoided even a single personal criticism of the powerful Senate Finance Committee chairman throughout the entire campaign...