Word: prior
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Robert Joseph Dole, the small-town Kansan who rose to become Republican leader in the U.S. Senate, is a remarkable survivor not only of war but of politics. Despite losses in two prior bids for national office, he has steadily been rising in the polls for the Republican presidential nomination. ! Yet he still faces formidable obstacles in the 1988 presidential campaign. He has been known as an acerbic Washington insider, a pragmatic, conservative man for all sessions during his 18 years in the Senate. Can such a candidate project a vision of the country's future that will satisfy both...
...have no trouble finding the great explosions popping out all over the universe. At first Zwicky's colleagues thought the idea ridiculous, but over the four decades that followed, he and his team found nearly 300 supernovas, about 30 times as many as appear in all of recorded history prior to 1885; the contributions of other astronomers have pushed the total to more than...
...White House" when the inevitable disclosure of the Iran initiative occurred. Regan told the commission that the President upon learning of the arms-for-hostages proposal said, "We should go slow on this but develop the contact." Ultimately, though, the panel rejected Regan's account that Reagan gave no prior approval to the Israeli arms shipments, and chastised him for giving poor advice to the President. More than almost any of his predecessors, Regan "asserted personal control over the White House staff and sought to extend this control to the National Security Adviser. He was personally active in National Security...
...sale. McFarlane said he even reminded Reagan that Shultz and Weinberger opposed this move, but the President assured him he would take "all the heat for that." While the report says it cannot "conclusively" resolve the dispute, the board is "persuaded that ((the President)) most likely provided this approval prior to the first shipment by Israel...
...occasionally displayed an extraordinary disingenuousness. But the commission nonetheless accepted his account of how the President approved the August 1985 Israeli arms shipments to Iran and concluded that McFarlane "clearly" had Reagan's "full support" to supply those weapons to Iran, even though he may have lacked "explicit prior approval." As National Security Adviser, McFarlane "appeared caught between a President who supported the initiative and the Cabinet officers who strongly opposed it." While he made efforts to keep those officers and Reagan informed, he "was not always successful." At the same time, he tried to be protective of the President...