Word: sanctions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...given her account of the courtship of Joseph and the Virgin Mary: "It is difficult to know what, if anything, she had in mind when she decided to tell the Age-Old Story with nothing new to add." He deplored Trevanian's habit, in The Eiger Sanction, of hauling such celebrities as the Burtons and Jackie Onassis into the action: "There is nothing wrong with this if you have a point to make about them. But he has nothing to say." Vidal twitted Frederick Forsyth for piling facts into "freight-car sentences." He was kinder to Herman Wouk...
...other argument is that a contribution to the University must be positive--not a negative sanction of withholding money unless all one's conditions are met. Bok, and his administrators, simply fail to see that E4D is positive. The people who give to E4D are not Harvard-haters. Quite the opposite. They want the best Harvard possible, and they are saying--in the tradition of Thoreau--"I cannot in good conscience give money to an institution that has financial dealings with companies that profit from apartheid...
Last week's grim discoveries of "desa-parecidos"surprised no one in Argentina. From 1976 to 1979, during the military's "dirty war" against suspected subversives, at least 6,000 people disappeared, victims of death squads that often operated with official sanction. What gave Argentines hope was their new civilian government's apparent determination to bring to justice those responsible for 7½ years of brutal repression under military rule...
...final electronic indignity came at the end of Young's textbook landing. As the orbiter's nose thudded to rest on its front landing gear, the No. 2 computer shut down again. The following day NASA announced it would not sanction the next shuttle flight, scheduled for Jan. 30, until the computer difficulties are resolved...
...these were peripheral issues, and they would remain so. The central sticking point was that the Soviets showed no inclination to sanction the deployment of any new U.S. missiles in Western Europe and the Reagan Administration, by holding firm to the zero option, was not willing to let the Soviets keep any SS-20s anywhere in the U.S.S.R...