Word: refrained
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Well before the ground fighting erupted last week, both sides had broken an agreement, arranged nine months ago by the United Nations, to refrain from hitting civilian targets. Iraq, desperate to break the prevailing stalemate, was first to violate the accord with air raids against Iranian cities and towns. The response was swift: sirens wailed in Baghdad as Iranian jets swooped in, hitting a huge housing development called Saddam City. In the various attacks on civilians, at least 500 people were killed on both sides...
...sociability with built-in defenses and proscribed limits. At another table some post-'60s people visiting from St. Cloud for the centennial celebration are talking about sharing their feelings. But their "sharing" is as formal and ritualized as the jokes of the coffee crowds, or the refrain echoing around John's Place, where retired farmers with bits of fingers and hands lost to farm machinery and ears warmed by highly idiosyncratic Minnesota caps play whist and pinochle all the wintry days and repeat as an incantation: "One thing for sure, it's going to be warmer...
Budget Director David Stockman said it first when he unveiled the Administration's proposals for radical cuts in domestic spending. Treasury Secretary James Baker picked up the refrain in Senate testimony. But no one has voiced the argument against federal revenue sharing more often or more forcefully than Ronald Reagan. He said it again last week when he met with the National Governors' Association at the White House: "There's simply no justification for the Federal Government, which is running a deficit, to be borrowing money to be spent by state and local governments, some of which are now running...
...unwise. In is distressing, however, to feel the need to take such idiocy seriously, but it is more distressing, and also frightening, to know that there are Harvard students who would not only think of taking a poster like this seriously, but who also lack the editorial ethics to refrain from printing such distortions. GLSA (note that the writers of The Salient have not even bothered to learn the correct name for an organization they are attacking) is open to all Harvard students of whatever sexual orientation or political perspective. The idea of a comp for GLSA is so ludicrous...
...what Stockman was really saying was "Let's cut off the arms and legs of the patient. Then he'll be 30 lbs. lighter and less of a burden." Farm Belt Republicans were equally outraged. Senator Charles Grassley of Iowa, in a letter to Stockman, asked him to "please refrain from sermonizing on the free market, which seems most hypocritical from a Government that has been the root cause of the current farm-economy crisis...