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...need something to make us realize that the energy crisis has not, and will not, just go away and that we must not relent in our efforts to plan for the future. Perhaps the fear of another OPEC oil squeeze will remind us, again...
Even when Tierney told the 125 supporters at his rally, "There won't be a new mayor for Boston," they would not relent...
...White House almost canceled President Reagan's speaking engagement at the U.N., scheduled for this Thursday, after some Third World nations demanded that Palestine Liberation Organization Leader Yasser Arafat be invited to speak as well. Only when a confrontation threatened to wreck the festivities did Arafat's sponsors relent...
Indeed, if Reagan were to relent in what now seems to be his uncompromising commitment to Star Wars, one conceivable outcome of the forthcoming negotiations might be an updated, modified version of the ABM treaty, combined with a cutback in offensive forces. What the strategic concept sees as the "period of transition" would in fact be the goal of the process. That would be a disappointment to those, like Reagan, who want to see arms control eliminate nuclear weapons from the face of the earth, but it would be a relief to others who believe that the best arms control...
...willingly incurred by consenting adults who went out and bought farmland when the price was going up and thought that they could get rich, or who went out and bought machinery and production assets because they made a business judgment that they could make money." If the Administration did relent and help farmers to get loans renewed, he added, it would be in the hope of winning votes for the sweeping rewrite of farm-price-support policies that Reagan is about to propose. Said Stockman: "Basically we are threatened with a kind of blackmail...