Word: protectorates
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Hilton's Grand Ballroom, however, a black-tie crowd of 1,000 heard from Reagan only the soft answers that proverbially turneth away wrath. He paid tribute to a list of Democratic and liberal heroes: Franklin Roosevelt, John Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr. He presented himself as the protector of F.D.R.'s welfare state. Said Reagan: "I'm accused by some of trying to destroy Government's commitment to compassion and the needy. Does this bother me? Yes. I'm doing everything I can . . . to slow the destructive growth in taxes and spending, to prune...
...separated by oceans from the U.S., are uncomfortably close to the U.S.S.R. and are reluctant to bear their share of their own defenses. The other factor is that the conventional forces of the Warsaw Pact are numerically superior to those of NATO. Thus the U.S., in its role as protector of Western Europe and Japan, has fallen back on its nuclear weapons as an equalizer for its disadvantages in geography, conventional forces and manpower...
...that words like rights and liberty play prominent parts in those Mobil Oil ads in the Times, no accident that the defense complex is very solicitous of "individual freedoms," no accident that Ronald Reagan, in private an unparalleled chum of every special interest, is in public a protector of the common man against, "pervasive government power." Huntington, discussing political reforms introduced by the progressives, quotes historian Ted Lowi: "The perpetual bane of the reformer's existence is the ease with which the party leaders adapt new structures to the old purposes...
...more than two dozen people called or turned up at the Stayner home, checks in hand, to buy rights to his unique story. Bewildered, the family turned to their attorney. He was unfamiliar with the new problems they faced, but he was able to recommend just the sort of protector they wanted. No fast-talking, hard-driving angle bender, their choice instead was a lawyer who started practicing only five years ago and who acknowledges, "I'm middleaged, somewhat overweight and a Jewish mother...
...would be charged with heavy-handed intervention in the Middle East during a time of uncertainty. For that reason, the Pentagon tried to play down the importance of the maneuvers. Said a spokesman: "It is a normal exercise, long planned." Although they view the U.S. as the ultimate protector of their oil wells, most of the moderate gulf states were concerned that the military maneuver would be exploited by Arab radicals to increase political instability. The states also viewed the maneuvers as an escalation of superpower involvement in the region, one that could trigger a Soviet response. Oman did agree...