Word: patricks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...months ago, he embarked on a well- publicized and ill-timed pilgrimage to Moscow. House Speaker Tip O'Neill, who engineered the most recent defeat of the contra aid package, termed the invasion a "tremendous blunder" and disgustedly called Ortega "a bumbling, incompetent Marxist-Leninist, a Communist." Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont quipped sarcastically that he "had heard a rumor that Daniel Ortega is secretly on the payroll of one of our intelligence agencies as a lobbyist for the Administration...
Administration spokesmen tried to transform public backing for standing up to Gaddafi into support for the less popular policy of aiding the contras. "Americans understand what type of people we have to deal with in this world," said White House Communications Director Patrick Buchanan, speaking of Gaddafi, "and they expect that from time to time we as a great power have to assert our right. That has to carry over into the Central America issue. & Sure, contra aid is a divisive issue in a dirty little war, but it takes courage to do what's right in that situation...
Keefe spokesman Patrick Lee explained that the change in estimates was due to record tax revenues in December and January. Lee said "The revenues were much greater than expected. Sales tax, taxes on automobiles and so on are coming in at a far greater rate...
From the day he took office, Ronald Reagan refused to acknowledge that man- made pollutants cause acid rain. In 1980, he went so far as to say that acid rain was caused by trees. In a St. Patrick's Day meeting a year ago in Quebec City with Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, the President rejected requests from his fellow Irishman for U.S. action. But last week in Washington, during his second "shamrock summit" with Mulroney, Reagan changed his tune. Acid rain, said he, "is a serious concern affecting both our countries...
...period when technology was used indiscriminately, this returns us to common-sense medicine," declared A.J. Levinson, executive director of Concern for Dying in New York City. But there were bitter objections as well. "Deciding to begin selective starvation is a decision no civilization should make," said Philosophy Professor Patrick Derr of Clark University in Worcester, Mass. And dehydration, critics noted, can be a gruesome way to die (though just how much a comatose patient feels is not known...