Word: nevertheless
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...their desks last week and tried to get their morale and finances in shape. Stunned by the Ivan Boesky insider-trading disclosures of Nov. 14 and expecting more to come, investors pulled their money out of takeover-target stocks and instead poured their cash into stabler, less controversial shares. Nevertheless, takeover artists got back some of their nerve and launched a flurry of new merger bids. All the while, angry accusations flew back and forth as the players in the widening controversy -- investors, raiders, regulators and legislators -- debated who was to blame for the state of affairs and what should...
...kulaks, caricatured as rich, greedy and brutal farmers who lived off the labor of others. Actually, they were the hardest working and the most productive of the peasants. The wealth of the average kulak family consisted of one to three cows and ten to 25 acres of land. Nevertheless, beginning in 1929, more than 13 million of them were "dekulakized," meaning deported, imprisoned or executed...
...Nevertheless, Reagan's opponents are committing an egregious error by using this tactic. After all, the comparisons between this scandal and the Watergate break-in have nothing to do with any similarity between the two crimes. In fact, on one level, Watergate doesn't deserve to be mentioned in the same breath as the Contra funding. Watergate involved petty squabbles between political parties while the Contra funding was a gross usurpation of Congress' power of the purse, a patent violation of the Constitution...
...Nevertheless, several freshmen will find themselves playing key roles throughout the dual-meet season and at the Eastern Championships--to be held at Brown on February 27 and 28, and March...
...Reagan White House can be fairly faulted for not taking these considerations into account before letting loose the NSC. Nevertheless, Congress ought to content itself with informal understandings as to limits upon the NSC's proper role. Public, media and congressional pressures together with the Tower Panel's scrutiny make it all but certain the NSC staff will have no alternative but to revert to its more traditional limited function. Hiring individuals for the staff who understand and accept this is obviously central. Legislating formal, explicit constraints should be avoided. Just as hard cases tend to make...