Word: sanctions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...talk about the budget and snidely asserted that Feldstein might not "make it to dessert." Richard G. Darman, another White House aide joined the baiting when he sent Speakes a note during the conference implying the meal was the chairman's "last supper." Though Reagan himself did not sanction the performance--he was reportedly furious about it--he conspicuously did not rush to Feldstein's defense. And Reagan's willingness to allow advisers to humiliate Feldstein while keeping him on is inappropriate...
...limited and well-screened press-conferences and seems to feel that all the press is owed is statements, not explanations. He triex, through his television appearances, to be his own press expecting that the public will view the newspapers as some from of Democratic faction, since it refuses to sanction his activities...
...opening attack was not thought out, his recantation on Grenada was ludicrous. The letter of apology to the First Lady was certainly warranted, but the Speaker's unquestioned sanction of Grenada is incomprehensible. Perhaps the Congressional fact-finding mission discovered something on Grenada that the public does not know. That would be easy since all we really know is that ABC's poll found Grenadians happy that we invaded. One hopes that the Speaker doesn't plan to begin running his foreign policy on the advice of ABC. Does the country's most prominent Democrat really want to stand behind...
...changes in our attitudes to football--and high school football in particular--will not come overnight. And perhaps, as what many consider an unhealthy level of competition during reading and exam period here illustrates, it is beyond the power of regulations to change. As long as we continue to sanction violent behavior in our public schools. We can express no surprise that citizens they breed will respond in kind...
...plea to intelligence information from the island that the Americans might be in danger, interpreted it as a call for action. With American ships, holding what were called reinforcements for Lebanon, steaming toward the area, Prime Minister Adams called other members of the OECS to persuade them to sanction the invasion. On the morning of the 22nd, the President gave the go-ahead while OECS leaders were signing a formal request for intervention, drafted in Washington...