Word: renewed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Ronald Reagan, who had seemed to be fading from view as the primary campaigns accelerated. Like his aides who now stand indicted, the President remained stubbornly defiant as his contra policy came close to collapsing. Although earlier in the week he assiduously lobbied leaders on Capitol Hill to renew the funding for his "Freedom Fighters," Reagan's attitude toward Congress and the contras remained unchanged. Former National Security Adviser Robert McFarlane, said the President, was guilty only of "not telling Congress everything it wanted to know. I've done that myself." Unlike the protagonist in a tragedy, he had learned...
...father and me, the Indians are a language. They are a secret ritual by which we renew our heritage, our connection to each other. The Indians are our cause. Even if the cause is lost...
...testimony to the selfish mean-spiritedness of those unfortunately entrusted with the Harvard History Department that they have denied students the benefit of his presence even as a junior professor by refusing to renew his contract. Damon Silvers '86 Felicia Kornbluh...
Besides providing for a first-in-the-nation plan to begin health care coverage for those 600,000 uninsured in Massachusetts, the proposal would renew a hospital financing law that expired Oct. 1. The health care bill contains about $1 billion in allowable revenue increases for the state's 106 acute-care hospitals over the next four years...
...Kerner report called for a "sustained and compassionate" government action in providing social programs and assistance. Two decades later it is time to heed that message. Our next president must realize that Reaganomics and the mythical "trickle-down" are but an empty dream. Our government must renew the social purpose it has abandoned during the Reagan years...