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...knew they were a speedy team with a lot of potential in the back court, but we thought our inside game could offset their quickness outside," Cocculoto said, adding, "We were wrong...
...answers about U.S. policy, and has added timely passages about how isolation from press oversight contributed to the Iran-contra crisis. As tough on the page as on the screen, Donaldson prides himself on having written without a ghost, and the book's rambling, unpolished quality is more than offset by his anecdotal candor...
Similarly, "Wrong In The Charts" uses low vocal distortion to offset some Beatle-esque harmonies, and "San Quentin, CA" muddles a country ballad with a batch of terrific grunge. The best tune here is "Loch Ness Monster," an outlandish love song directed at Scotland's most famous anachronistic ichthyosaurus, more commonly known as "Nessie...
...arms to Iran) is the same Reagan who has let divisive disputes between the Pentagon and State Department paralyze arms-control policy for six years. The defects of what the commissioners euphemistically called Reagan's "management style," and what some former associates more bluntly term mental laziness, were largely offset during his successful first term by the advice of an exceptionally talented group of aides. But since re-election the President has been surrounded by advisers whose own deficiencies, as the commission makes clear, disastrously dovetail with those of their boss...
...each turn, North's flamboyance was offset by a passion for secrecy. From the National Security Agency he obtained top-secret encryption devices to create a secure communications link to the private operators in his contra- supply operation. The report suggests that Poindexter sought to keep Secretary of State George Shultz and Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger -- and sometimes even the President -- in the dark about North's activities. This secrecy was compounded by the lack of any governmental supervision or internal review of the NSC operation. The result, says the commission, was an "unprofessional" program that failed to achieve...