Word: nevertheless
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rise above her streetwalker past, resents George's cheapness, the garish clothes he buys to please her, the Bloody Marys that he drinks waiting for her in fancy hotels. Hoskins, an incredibly natural blend of realistic and romantic, who cannot help but see her for what she is, nevertheless tries to protect her and himself from recognizing this reality...
...last-minute problems and battered by criticism, Wolper, 58, relies on the experience of his 37 years and 160 awards in the entertainment world to steady his nerves. "If you go into these things thinking it's going to be a Pollyanna situation, you won't survive," he observes. Nevertheless, the strain shows. After six months as Liberty Weekend chairman, creating a celebration that is part official, part spectacular and totally public, his normally tanned cheeks are almost as gray as his beard...
Reagan's triple play will not, of course, transform the court overnight. By losing Burger and gaining Scalia, Reagan is in a narrow sense simply replacing one conservative with another. Nevertheless, Rehnquist, a shrewd intellect and popular figure on the court, promises to be a much more forceful leader than the plodding, standoffish Burger. "The Rehnquist-Scalia duo is infinitely more dynamic than the conservative wing was with Burger at the helm," says Constitutional Scholar Laurence Tribe of Harvard Law School. "I would be extremely surprised if over the next several years the effect is not to push the court...
...Nevertheless, the wiring of America proceeds apace. Some local phone companies are testing systems that will divide standard voice telephone lines into three digital channels, allowing telephone customers to plug terminals directly into their wall sockets, without benefit of modem, and to program their phones like computers. Networking firms, such as 3Com, Sytek, Ungermann- Bass and Network Systems Corp., are stringing up mile after mile of high- speed coaxial and optical fiber cables and offering communications rates in excess of 275 million bits of information a second...
...White House last month to propose a new orbiter, Chief of Staff Donald Regan suggested that the shuttle might represent outmoded technology. Yet most aerospace experts still consider the shuttle an engineering marvel and the best available technology for a vehicle that can return from space and fly again. Nevertheless, some scientists consider a replacement unwise until the U.S. knows what it wants its shuttles to achieve...