Word: retained
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Instead, he had to look Presidential and he was trapped by his own lack of intellectual vigor as well as a singular lack of experience in defending his government rather than attacking someone else's. How much longer could be retain credibility by dumping every failure on the Carter Administration when he has run the show for nearly four years? How Presidential could he look by rationalizing his every gaffe by blaming Congress? Not very, and Reagan was caught in his own Catch...
Throughout the talks, Moscow clung to a proposal to establish ceilings on strategic "launchers" (missile silos, submarine missile-launching tubes, intercontinental bombers) lower than those set by the SALT II treaty. The U.S. complained that the Kremlin would retain a long lead in monster land-based missiles. The Reagan Administration regards these as the most "destabilizing" and dangerous nuclear weapons because they could deliver a devastating first strike. Unlike the INF talks, the START negotiations were never formally ended. But after the deployment of U.S. Pershing II and Tomahawk missiles in Europe began, the Soviets contended that they would have...
...make Bad Manners more than just a fun night out with yourself disappoints in the end. Filmed in under backing, it sports an uneven quality peculiar to low-budget Hollywood. If Bobby Houston follows through with plans to offer a second with a larger budget, Bad Manners II could retain its humor and develop into the better movie it often hints at. But then you'd probably have to take someone along to see that movie...
...Including several optional evening lectures at the end of the semester--the bone Feldstein has tentatively thrown out to those troubled by his decision--does not meet our definition of "integral." Barring such a commitment to teaching the radical material coursewide, however, it is essential that Feldstein at least retain the optional sections for those students who are eager to learn...
...appointed by local councils). But in practice, the King himself chooses the Prime Minister and all the Cabinet ministers, often from among his family and friends. This year, however, with Morocco's standard of living on the wane and social unrest on the rise, Hassan needed to retain control while giving his critics enough freedom to keep them quiet. True to form, a majority of 108 seats was won by three look-alike centrist parties that are unswervingly devoted to the King and his pro-Western line. At the same time, however, the opposition Socialist Party went from...