Word: properly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...than his colleagues, as he views the best achievements of his life's work crumbling. Still, it is likely that, barring illness or accident, Gromyko will be around for some time. And I would not be surprised to see him, like the persistent bulldog he is and at the proper time, again try to restore Soviet-American detente, even if he must do it--in one of his own favorite phrases--"brick by brick...
...what he considers the ultimate budgetary trap: volunteering nonessential items. With willful patience, he defends the entire package. Says Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Barry Goldwater: "When he gets his mind made up, you just don't change it." Weinberger's admirers defend that strategy as both savvy and proper. "The Congress wants to be able to cut the budget and then say Weinberger said it's O.K.," says Carlucci. "That is a perversion of the process...
Today we have outgrown that mentality. We acknowledge that it is not proper for whites to don burnt cork. It is my hope that the outgrow the anger that brings forth these unfortunate, division innuendos...
...Harry Dean Stanton), the Captain Ahab of repo men, a proper mentor for Otto? Is the repo man's code, which Bud keeps muttering about as < he drives dementedly around looking for cars to grab, applicable to all the issues one encounters in this cockeyed world? Or is Bud just the most colorfully paranoid marble in the bagful that Writer-Director Alex Cox has rolling around his movie...
Just as liberalism "involves a large number of complex postulates about the proper role of government in society," likewise does conservatism. Indeed, prolific conservatives like George F. Will and William F. Buckley Jr. don't waste their intelligence and industry refuting complex liberal notions. Rather, they devote their considerable intellects to the definition and explanation of the even more complex conservative philosophy--a much more significant pursuit than simple nay-saying...