Word: shallows
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Israel was free to follow in the path of the blind and the silent, but courageously embraced her moral code in pursuit of restored honor. Incurring no world credit but instead, shallow condemnations, the country rests with cleared conscience, but the memory of the guilt and the commitment to just statehood prevail...
...members of the Reagan Administration whenever he happens to disagree with them. He has upbraided Presidential Pollster Richard Wirthlin for accepting a polling contract from Americans who sympathize with the Palestine Liberation Organization and scoffed at National Security Adviser William Clark as "living proof that still waters can run shallow." Safire has repeatedly criticized the Administration as acquiescent on foreign policy, particularly for its pledge to withdraw military support from Taiwan and its lifting of sanctions against construction of a natural gas pipeline from the Soviet Union to supply Western Europe. Says he: "I am a hard-liner...
...beauty of the countryside speaks for itself, basically unaltered by the artist's interpretation. Or the observer can join Porter for some salty see spray on The Mall Boat (1973) in which, like scene form On Golden Pond, the skipper at the helm navigates through the shallow channels and rocky islands near Great Spruce Head...
President Reagan's remark about abolishing corporate income taxes, though retracted, reveals his shallow knowledge of economics as well as his personal bias toward the rich. With the nation suffering severe unemployment, he questions the justification for taxing corporations instead of proposing a constructive jobs program. Many companies already have an excessive concentration of wealth. Without corporate income taxes, the situation would become worse...
...survey titled "Rating TV's Investigative Reporters," Staff Writer Mark Ribowsky, 32, asserted that 60 Minutes co-workers of CBS News Correspondent Ed Bradley regard him as "shallow" and "impossible"; Ribowsky also accused Bradley of "logging few hours on location" and "demanding a writer's credit for superficial script editing." Bradley denied the charges, and specifically claimed that he spent nearly half of last year out of New York City reporting stories. Said Bradley to TIME: "It was a bunch of lies." The purported criticisms from colleagues, all made in unattributed quotes, were contradicted in separate letters...