Word: potted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Representatives of Mobilization for Survival, the group sponsoring the anti-nuclear referendum, said the last forum way typical of all of them. They added that they almost chose pot to attend this...
...from the President. "I like the concept," Reagan said. "I hope we can make it work." Other Administration officials were far more skeptical. They argued that reducing the number of nuclear missiles does not necessarily lead to greater stability, and they objected to mixing bombers in the same negotiating pot with ballistic missiles. But Cohen had an important hole card: if he could persuade a core group of moderate Senators to join with him, they could block the funding for the new MX missile...
Donning a battered top hat, Conference Organizer James Fraser, 53, called the meeting to order by banging a soup pot with a wooden spoon. The members of his audience, who ranged from stock-market dabblers to professionals from Merrill Lynch and Dean Witter, wore buttons proclaiming slogans like THINK FOR YOURSELF. Said Fraser: "Contrary opinion teaches us to be thoughtful nonconformists, keeping us from being led astray by popular opinion...
...America as a melting pot but not as a trash dump for foreign undesirables. Letting in all those criminals and mental patients among the Mariel refugees was Jimmy Carter's biggest mistake...
...this we have two other major participants stirring the pot the Syrians, who control the Bekaa Valley, and the PLO, which controls Tripoli to the north. To the south, Israel occupies southern Lebanon...