Word: presentational
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...alleged affairs. In a LIFE interview, Jesse Jackson's wife warned that her husband's fidelity was nobody's business. Said she: "I don't believe in examining sheets." Nonetheless, candidates who prefer to devote their time offering visions of the future are likely to spend much of the present talking about themselves, their character and their credibility...
Critics of wide-scale testing, however, pointed out that screening 43,000 federal prisoners, 1.4 million patients a year in Veterans Administration hospitals and thousands of foreigners who annually flood immigration offices would present enormous logistical problems. Such large-scale testing is unlikely to achieve results commensurate with the huge price...
...nothing directly about the Silkworms. But speaking of the Reagan Administration's plan to have U.S. warships escort Kuwaiti tankers through the gulf, he warned, "There are no absolute guarantees that such an operation will be casualty free or that Iran will not escalate the sea war, which will present us with further difficult choices...
...Anyone who closes his eyes to the past is made blind to the present. Whoever refuses to remember the inhumanity is prone to the new risks of infection," the German president said in his Bitburg speech...
Porte calls the present situation in the department "screwball." He adds, "The preponderance of students are in the 19th and 20th century British and American literature. But we are very weak in American literature...