Word: resorted
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...findings came after a 14-month investigation detailing how more than $1 million in contributions, four trips to the Bahamas and all-expense-paid stays at resort hotels found their way from indicted savings and loan executive Charles Keating, who needed protection from federal regulators trying to shut him down, to five U.S. Senators and their staffs. The committee found Senators John Glenn of Ohio ($234,000 in Keating contributions) and John McCain of Arizona ($112,000) the least culpable, engaging only in "poor judgment" because they gave Keating less help than did the others. Senators Donald Riegle of Michigan...
...other business the council approved a motion supporting an opinion by Secretary of Laboratory Animals Stuart E. Wiles that the Draize eye test and the LD 50 test should be used only as a "last resort...
THIS IS NOT TO SAY that we must resort to complete non-intervention and Washingtonesque isolationism in our foreign policy. Kennan did not call for complete withdrawal from the international arena. Instead, he proposed that we develop a more conservative, more realistic attitude when determining whether to intervene in the affairs of external states...
...March 17 referendum, while Latvia was leaning toward boycotting it. But Gorbachev's message also carried the kind of rally-round- the-flag overtones sounded by resurgent Communist hard-liners. Should he fail to re-create the Union with popular consent, he will be pressed by the reactionaries to resort to force -- or move aside...
Harrison says that combat should have been viewed "only as a last resort," but "in this particular war, it is clear that communication was still possible before it started...