Word: pretexts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Valelly notes. "The whole Citibank issue showed to me they had no respect for precedent Kenneth Propp. a third-year law student and, former member for the ACSR, adds that citing precedent is an"unjustifiable tactic" by the Corporation because it serves as a pretext for covering up serious disagreements with the ACSR...
...late for that. The tape was the last straw; it provided the pretext for waverers to commit themselves to impeachment and for others to abandon Nixon. By now there had been too many shocks; everybody wanted to get it over with...
...message in which?amazingly?he invited me to visit Egypt for talks "within the framework of two principles?that Egypt cannot make any concessions of land or sovereignty." There could be no doubt that Ismail was speaking in Sadat's name. Sadat could have used the airlift as a pretext to unleash the mobs in the Arab world against us, as Nasser had done with far less provocation in 1967. But Sadat was willing to forgo posturing for attainable progress. He had taken the measure of Soviet support: always enough to keep tensions high, never enough to bring about...
...Sullivan expounding on the Bureau's standards of proof; "It may be unrealistic to limit ourselves as we have been doing to legalistic proofs or evidence that would stand up in court." Cut to a G-man calling up the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and under the pretext of being a potential contributor, pumping them about their future plans...
...Viet Nam behind us!" and, from the other side of the stage, "Beware! The Gulf of Sidra may be another Gulf of Tonkin!" (thus the onstage, with clanking chains, the ghost of the 1964 naval skirmish off the coast of Viet Nam, which Lyndon Johnson used as a pretext to escalate American involvement there...