Word: pulls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...recent advance toward greater democracy will only lead to a more sophisticated war." Duarte, whose own harsh experiences with Salvadoran reality may have tempered his sense of impatience, responds that "we are trying to get the people back to having faith and hope. We cannot offer miracles." But to pull El Salvador out of its violent maelstrom, something close to a miracle may be necessary...
...recent decision not to send its athletes to the Summer Games in Los Angeles reflects more than just the recent decline in Soviet-American relations, more than just a tit-for-tat response to the United States for the U.S. boycott of the Moscow Games in 1980. The Russian pull-out reflects a now more clearly evident truth--that in their present form, the Games do not divorce politics from athletics, in fact, they do quite the opposite. They give world leaders an otherwise non-existent platform to call attention to themselves with the rest of the world...
Instead, we ask Bok and the Corporation to finally get serious about their statements over the last decade that they care about the South African question, and work--through stockholder resolutions and other tactics--to get those companies directly supporting the South African government to pull out from the country, and to push companies which do not directly propagate apartheid to adopt the Sullivan Principles as a bare minimum...
...sake--if he wishes a shot in '88--and for the party's sake--if it wishes a shot in November. Hart should pull a George Bush and quickly forget all the terrible things he said about Fritz Mondale...
Trying to capture the 1984 outdoor season in a word. Stephens says, "I don't know. Disappointment." Then he adds, "We have a lot of talented athletes. We're just not able to pull it together as a team...