Word: posing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cleared by eight bodyguards, Salvadoran Constitutional Assembly President Roberto d'Aubuisson struck an aggressive pose last week as he approached a specially erected platform in the remote Salvadoran farming cooperative of Parra Lempa. D'Aubuisson wore white and a .38-cal. revolver, an emblem by which he is familiarly known. "Some people write that we are barbarians and bloody," he shouted to an audience of some 400 campesinos. "But today, you have seen that we stand for land reform. In return for your vote, we Nationalist Republicans promise to work for the people." The crowd cheered...
...word hangs around the necks of the '84 squad like a talisman and an albatross. The new team has traded in the pre-Olympic obscurity of their gold-medal predecessors for celebrity with an uneasy edge-avid media attention, sold-out exhibition games and an offer to pose en masse for Vogue-all in the reckless anticipation that miracles can strike twice. It puts unholy pressure on the young skaters, some of whom had hardly begun shaving four years ago, when Jim Craig, Mark Johnson and the rest were working their legerdemain at Lake Placid. But if any coach...
...UNDERDEVELOPED NATIONS increasingly criticize our miding principles, we have not responded as a progressive Kennedy might have, negotiating to find some sort of common ground. Instead, the nation has held its conservative Reagan pose, denouncing any proposals for change and putting up a rigid defense...
...tough tax and spending measures needed to reduce the nearly $200 billion deficit. He will undoubtedly find the Grace report of great help as he tries to score rhetorical points in his continual campaign against congressional spendthrifts, even those in his own party. But the findings also pose a political challenge. If such huge savings are possible, Democrats can ask, why has Reagan failed so dismally at cutting waste...
Expect for a fleeting 2-0 lead at the start of the contest, the Crimson never seemed in control of its own game, and never did it pose a serious threat to the Big Green. Dartmouth quickly banged out eight consecutive points after the initial field goal, and perhaps the most surprising thing of it all was that the Crimson lost by only 10 points...