Word: objects
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rescue seem any closer for the beleaguered MX missile, a prime object of congressional skepticism and budget cutting. A blue-ribbon bipartisan presidential commission headed by Brent Scowcroft, who was National Security Adviser to President Gerald Ford, is expected to recommend this week that production and deployment of the MX proceed. But Congressmen briefed on the commission's report predicted a tough fight with no assurance that the President will win. The only slight relief the White House could find in the reaction to the MX was a decision by the nation's Roman Catholic bishops to revise...
...sovereignty, interfere in its internal affairs and hurt the feelings of the Chinese people," read Peking's protest. In fact, China had hoped to prevent the Hu Na case from adding to the current strains with the U.S. and had sent signals that it would not strongly object if its star tennis player were given an immigration status that did not carry the nettlesome label of political asylum...
...every life has analogues of its own. The essential circumstance is that of the mob, always a terrifying entity, whatever its goal. One thinks of lynch mobs before rape mobs, but all mobs have the same appearances and patterns, the same compulsion to tear things down or apart. The object of passion is sighted and pursued. The mob rises to a peak of pure hate, does what it does, then slinks away, its energy spent. Perhaps every mob commits rape in a way. Anybody who has ever seen a mob in action senses its latent sexuality-the collective panting...
...seniors who object to the way Harvard manages its money, the most common response to these spring solicitations has simply been not to chip in. In 1981, senior activists protesting the University's investments in companies that do business in South Africa went a step further, launching large-scale campaigns to discourage their classmates from contributing to the class gift...
...object to their trying to espouse their viewpoint, unless they do it with other people's money," he explained...