Word: nevertheless
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...Nevertheless, the Soviets could still apply their conventional superiority to other tasks. In crises between the Soviet Union and the United States or Western Europe, Moscow could use the military threat of invasion to coerce NATO into backing down, politically. One need only remember the Berlin crises of the 1960s for an example of Soviet tanks not on manuevers...
There are major gaps in Bender's discussion, however, notably on the Harlem Renaissance--covered in three pages--and jazz, which doesn't appear in a lengthy chapter on New York arts and music. Nevertheless, Bender generates enough confidence to be taken serious when he critiques modern academia or modern New York City--and in his conclusion he doesn't like the way either of these social institutions is evolving...
...Nevertheless, Speaker Wright felt the time was ripe on all sides for a sincere diplomatic push: the Administration knew it could have trouble winning more contra aid; Congress was looking for ways to avoid a bruising clash; the rebels appeared to be making little headway on the battlefield; and the Sandinistas were experiencing severe economic problems and the prospect of waning Soviet support...
...however reassuring Bragg's politics, there's nevertheless something slightly nettlesome about being preached to. One fortunate side of Bragg is that he anticipates all of the complaints--even the ones about how chick it seems to have become for rock stars (Bono of U2, Jackson Browne, and so on) to go down to see what's really going on down there--and he's ready to deal forthrightly with the complaints...
...from foreign cities to local sites. The two recent accidents are the most serious we have ever experienced, and we still as yet haven't had one serious injury or fatality. This doesn't *** that we can afford to be lax about our driving policy, and we aren't. Nevertheless, our safety record points out that we do not suffer from the rampant mismanagement and irresponsibility Mr. Nordhaus would have you believe plagues...