Word: nevertheless
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only remaining course in divestiture. President Bok recognizes this option, but rejects it without careful consideration nevertheless concluding that divestiture is "almost certainly destined to prove ineffective." Other, however, disagree. The states of Massachusetts and Connecticut, as well as well as the cities of Philadelphia, Grand Rapids, Cambridge, and others, have all divested. The University of Wisconsin, Michigan State University, Hampshire College, Antioch College, and many other educational institutions have also taken action against South Africa through divestiture...
...defeating the contras. The only way we have to influence the Reagan Administration is to demonstrate the will of our people to defend the revolution. Our defeat of the contras will be a defeat for the U.S. policy of intervention and aggression. Nevertheless, we have got to prepare Nicaragua for the worst. If the U.S. were to invade us, it would not be the first time...
...Prime Minister Maurice Bishop, who had led a Marxist coup on his nearby Caribbean island in 1979, Bouterse drifted gradually leftward. Soon he was visiting Fidel Castro, singing his praises and allowing the Soviets and Cubans to open well-staffed embassies in the riverfront capital of Paramaribo. Nevertheless, Bouterse's revolutionary fervor remained relatively lackadaisical: he never bothered to nationalize private enterprises or muzzle frequent criticism from the press...
...last remnant of the expansion draft that stocked the franchise eleven years ago. He can recall mean times and does so nostalgically. "One problem with playing on a winner," sighs Smith, "is you can't go out and just hammer somebody. It might cost you the game." Nevertheless, he went out and just hammered Gretzky in Game 2, which the Islanders won 6-3. There followed a bit of spearing and slashing, a good deal of cursing and crying, and two more New York victories, 5-1 and 4-2. This hockey ugliness was distracting, because the Islanders...
...most convincing and charming by far is Cherry Jones as Lady Teazle, the brash young wife of a cantankerous but adoring city nobleman (Alvin Epstein). Beset by the slimy advances of Joseph, the importunations of her husband, and the nattering and bickering of her circle of gossips, she nevertheless tends to hold the center of attention. The flock of reprobates around her project a great many varieties of competent villainy, from the goodnatured profligacy of Stephen Rowe as Charles to the simpering idiocy of Thomas Derrah as Benjamin Backbite. The ART also has lived up to its Faculty duties...