Word: refrains
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...whining refrain, "Where have all the liberals gone," is baloney. They have gone to the White House, to the Khyber Pass, to vote against school integration in Congress, to the Pentagon. It was Carter's bellicose administration that paved the way for Reagan. Under Carter's aphorism of privilege "life is unfair," working people, Blacks and the poor faced grinding inflation and unemployment while the government pushed for war with the Soviet Union, making the U.S. political climate "safe," indeed welcome for Ronald Reagan...
...this DNA work is for the money now," Vellucci said, adding "now, do we know that they'll really refrain from...
...officials, fearful of starting another run at the gasoline pump, issued soothing reassurances about the cushioning effect of the U.S.'s own stockpile. This country holds a 100-day supply at current rates of consumption. Meanwhile in Paris, members of the 20-nation International Energy Agency pledged to refrain from plunging into a destructive round of bidding against one another for supplies on the spot market...
...would have to agree to respect Iraqi sovereignty over its own land and waters, would have to maintain good relations with its Arab neighbors along the gulf, would have to promise not to meddle in Iraq's internal affairs, and as a kind of catchall, would have to refrain from "aggressive" activities...
...against the Algeria-backed Polisario guerrillas in the former Spanish Sahara, Shagari defused the crisis with a compromise peace-keeping plan. Similarly, it was Nigeria's displeasure over the executions of 13 top officials in Liberia that ultimately forced the erratic new regime of Sergeant Samuel Doe to refrain from further bloodspilling. With the exception of those states that actually border South Africa, Nigeria has done more than any other African nation to assist liberation movements in the white-ruled tip of the continent. As Shagari puts it, "This holy war against colonialism and racism in southern Africa...