Word: resorts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...found one: a blunt call for the U.S. to get a lot tougher about Japanese trade. The high rhetoric had all the sounds of an illiberal protectionism, but Mondale plowed ahead anyway. In front of roaring union audiences, he protested with telling exaggeration that American businessmen almost had to resort to U.S. Army tanks to get products into Japan. Mondale was thrilled with his own new boldness. "Did you see the stories?" he proudly asked friends, sometimes mailing them clippings to make certain they read about his aggressive style...
...Louis' other main point is that America is just as willing to resort to nuclear blackmail as the Soviets, and will often lie to the public to achieve its aims. It is true that the U.S. has threatened the use of nuclear missiles before (and has even used two atomic bombs), but such threats have ended two bloody wars and kept the Soviets at bay in Iran (1946) and Cuba...
...integral part of "peace through strength." And it should be sure that the proposed systems meet its defense needs in the most effective and direct manner. Where America relies on the nuclear deterrent to back its conventional troops, it should beef up those troops, not the weapons of last resort never designed to replace them...
...White, found that 11% of U.S. adults admit having sampled cocaine, and one in four says that "someone close to me has tried it." Cocaine in the early 1980s has become a democratic craze instead of a high-society toot. Indeed, it is like the once exclusive vacation resort that the masses discover after its founding trendies have moved on: today, just as a lot of cosmopolites on both coasts are souring on cocaine, the drug is pushing its roots wider and deeper into America's social strata. Peter Bensinger, director of the Drug Enforcement Administration from...
...Eban places the recent events within a broader historical context. He points out that his own Labor Party has never endorsed pacifism, which could, in the turbulent Middle East, amount to suicide. But, he maintains, his party has always believed that war should be "a last, reluctant resort," to be pursued only with limited aims and limited forces. By comparison, the "Zionist Revisionist movement," from which Prime Minister Menachem Begin's Likud government was born, has always given "war a larger place." With their "mystique of heroism . . . martial songs, uniforms, parades and unofficial armies," Eban writes, the Revisionists, even...