Word: sentimentality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ironically, the remainder of Bork's four-year tenure at Justice could prove his biggest asset. Career and political appointees alike credit Bork with helping to restore morale at the shaken department. Despite antibusing sentiment in both the Nixon and Ford administrations, for example, Bork pointedly refused to oppose a controversial Boston school-desegregation order. "He was the epitome of an open-minded, principled lawyer," says A. Raymond Randolph, then a Bork aide, "the exact opposite of a rigid ideologue...
...orders to ask all grown black men, with the exception of the obese, to agree to be fingerprinted. "We have an obligation to try every option within our means," proclaimed Kelly, 33, a Homestead native who has been on the force for 13 years. He sternly denied any racist sentiment and insisted -- convincingly, since at 6 ft. 5 in. and 280 lbs. he looks like a fellow who could go bear hunting with a switch -- he would have asked for fingerprints of whites if he had thought the attacker was white...
...organized the scheme from his post at Fort Magsaysay, 70 miles north of Manila. As Honasan led his followers into Camp Aguinaldo, he told reporters that the operation "was not a coup" but was aimed at "unification of the people, the concept of justice and true freedom." Expressing a sentiment common in the military these days, he added, "We've been blamed and ignored so much. It's time to hear the voice of your soldiers...
...with other boot-camp graduates, many doctors feel, If I went through it, so can you. Some of the resistance to changing medical residencies reflects this macho sentiment. Established physicians remember their years of training as dramatic and character building. The fact is, however, that the typical experience of a medical resident has changed over the decades. Thirty years ago, physicians had less information to master and fewer tools at their disposal. Nights on call tended to be less punishing, if not enjoyable. New York Obstetrician Selig Neubardt, 61, remembers playing his guitar to while away his hours on call...
...their opposition to contra aid and Ronald Reagan's Star Wars program. He has also taken a more moderate stance on many social issues, thus appealing to disaffected Democrats worried about their party's long love affair with various special-interest groups. Without Nunn in the race, the prevailing sentiment among centrist Democrats in the South (and perhaps elsewhere) may be "None of the Above...