Word: sided
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...vote put the Senate squarely on the side of abortion rights for the first time, but even the victors acknowledged that a differently worded proposal to limit legal abortions could still pass...
Levin has accused Gulf Power of "trying to make the public believe Jake set the plane on fire" by telling only their side of the story behind Horton's imminent dismissal. Executives of Gulf Power and Southern have clammed up, refusing to give more information until authorities determine the cause of the mishap. One thing is sure: no matter what the investigation turns up, many people in Pensacola will insist that the crash that killed Jake Horton was no accident...
...conventional-arms reductions that Gorbachev proposed are striking enough: hundreds of thousands of troops on each side and, by Moscow's arithmetic -- which does not come close to agreeing with NATO figures -- slashes of about two-thirds in the number of Warsaw Pact tanks, armored vehicles and artillery pieces. After the reductions, which would be much heavier on the Soviet than the U.S. side, NATO and Warsaw Pact troops and weaponry would supposedly be equalized by 1996-97 at a level a bit below that now fielded by NATO. Still, Gorbachev essentially only filled in the details on a proposal...
...Iron Curtain . . . achieve a lasting political pluralism and respect for human rights" inside the Soviet Union) to earn U.S. trust. By contrast, he offered little in the way of U.S. action. He revived and expanded the "open skies" proposal advanced 34 years ago by Dwight Eisenhower. Under it, each side would let the other's unarmed reconnaissance planes, and now satellites, fly over its territory...
...with legislators, Caperton has invited Democrats and Republicans alike to the mansion for pizza after a long day spent on his agenda. At first, some Republicans wanted to obstruct the Caperton juggernaut, but the G.O.P., outflanked and outnumbered 4 to 1, had little choice but to go along. "Whichever side you were on," says house minority leader Bob Burk, "you realized we had to do something about the fiscal integrity of the state...