Word: reminding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Europe, Reagan will urge his fellow leaders to remind their own citizens that the West is far less dependent now on oil shipments through the Persian Gulf than it was in 1973-74 and 1979, when supplies ran seriously short. His point: the biggest threat to Western economies is not a real shortage of oil but an unjustified surge of panic buying and price boosts...
...People basically agree--with a few exceptions--that we have to do something to remind the students, and the Faculty too, of the importance of the issue," says Council member Stephen Owen, professor of Chinese literature. The key issues before the Faculty are those of when one person's expression of free speech infringes on another's, and how to discipline offenders. The issue is particularly difficult because "you get into the line between registering disapproval and abridging someone's right to speak freely," says Bok. It is exactly that line which Council members hope Bok will help draw...
...Graves said, "A college president needs to remind himself every morning that he is just somebody else's predecessor...
...County--for Bloom County is clearly a child of the Doonesbury era. Politically and sometimes sentimentally accurate. Bloom County makes the best stab around at carrying the Doonesbury torch. But Bloom County too often comes dangerously close of the zone between, say. Donesbury and Garfield, where it begins to remind one of Dennis the Menace. Because he has chosen child rather than adult heroes. Breathed sometimes indulges in "aren't they cutisms," which become a bit of a crutch...
...When I remind him of these accusations, he becomes furious: "The death squads are people like you, like [former] U.S. Ambassador Robert White. They are everyone who helps block economic aid that would save the displaced from dying of hunger." According to D'Aubuisson, the death squads do not exist. What about the 1,259 assassinations that, according to the archbishopric, the death squads carried out in 1983? "Those are, perhaps, Salvadoran Communists who died in Nicaragua fighting against Somoza, and whose names are now exploited by disinformation campaigns...