Word: objects
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shocked by the explosions in England and, as a Briton and naturalized U.S. citizen, object strongly to American involvement in these I.R.A. terrorist attacks on the innocent. It is common knowledge that arms and financial aid to the I.R.A. are sent by Americans, and with an ease that smacks of turning a blind...
PFAW could not defend texts blacklisted by the Gablers at the public hearings, since state regulations allow only negative testimony and prohibit all positive comment. But the board of education will accept written rebuttals by supporters of the criticized texts. In a junior high school health text, the Gablers objected to a class discussion assignment on the concept of "worry." "It has no place being studied in the classroom," wrote the Gablers. The American Way rebuttal: "This objection is a dogmatic statement with no basis in education theory." The Gablers disapproved of an entire chapter of an eighth-grade civics...
...Gablers have many supporters and admirers. Says Paul Mathews, a member of the state board of education: "I feel the Gablers are doing a great service. They're ferreting out slang, vulgarities and also things that are unpatriotic." Yet many classroom teachers object to the Gablers' narrow viewpoints, and the Texas State Teachers Association helped PFAW by sending them the Gablers' criticisms in advance. Says Austin English Teacher Ouida Whiteside: "We all sat back for a long time and thought the whole thing was a joke. Suddenly we realized we'd been had." However, Grace Grimes...
Ronald Reagan's Administration has always been the object of invective from the left, and it always will be. Reagan is, after all, the most conservative President elected in the past half-century. But throughout his long march to the presidency, Reagan had the unfailing loyalty and visceral support of two overlapping constituencies: the morally righteous New Right and the fiscally indignant Old Right. But increasingly, Reagan's zealous supporters feel betrayed by the Administration, if not quite yet by the President himself...
...violating travel restrictions. Colleagues in Moscow insist that his real crime was diligence. Says Nagorski: "The authorities especially dislike a reporter who zeroes in on the feelings of ordinary people." Washington officials view the expulsion as a warning to the Western press corps. "The Soviets decided to create an object lesson," says one State Department aide...