Word: nevertheless
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...many other peoples who remain oppressed by their governments or still seek independence from neo-colonial rule. And the price of rebelling against authoritarian regimes, as seen in streets of Beijing and in Panama City following Gen. Manuel Noriega's reassertion of control, is high and often bloody. Nevertheless, the highly encouraging though tenuous developments taking place in countries accustomed to repression should bring hope to men and women everywhere...
...Nevertheless, the IRS has warned agents who have been contacted by congressional investigators not to talk unless IRS attorneys are present. The agency's lawyers travel across the nation in tandem with congressional investigators and relay the witnesses' testimony to senior IRS officials in Washington. One key informant, a former IRS agent, claims that he has been audited repeatedly by the tax agency in retaliation for reporting corruption within its ranks. At next month's hearings, he plans to disclose how two Treasury Department attorneys visited him in December with what he interpreted as a warning that Gibbs...
While it's true that the Soviets have more short-range nuclear weapons -- and that they've modernized their short-range missiles while we are still relying on our old Lance, we nevertheless have a sufficient capability to create that crucial uncertainty in their mind regarding a war's outcome. I don't want to risk a run to zero by opening up a negotiation in the current climate...
...have adopted some form of intensive-supervision probation. In that system, an offender lives at home but must check in with probation officers a number of times each day while also holding a job, often in community service. This approach requires the hiring of more probation officers, but it nevertheless winds up costing only a fraction of the $14,000-to-$30,000 annual expense of keeping an inmate in a cell...
...Nevertheless, visitors will see a park that is dramatically different from a year ago. The fires consumed 989,000 of Yellowstone's 2.2 million acres, less than originally thought but still an area larger than the state of Rhode Island. But the flames were dervish-like, capriciously carving jigsaw patterns out of untouched forest, sometimes encircled by heavily burned areas. Blackened stands of lodgepole pine and Douglas fir should gradually become meadows of aspens, wildflowers and grass; life will go on. "From an ecological standpoint, there was no downside," says John Varley, the park's chief of research...