Word: sidestepping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...light of this new evidence, Congress should appoint a committee to fully investigate the administration's attempts to sidestep the Congressional restrictions, with the possibility that impeachable offenses may have been committed. The Justice Department should also investigate whether there are possible criminal charges that can be brought against former President Reagan...
...single-warhead Midgetman (a misnomer for a missile weighing 37,000 lbs.) would sidestep the vulnerability problem by being deployed on hardened, tractor-drawn launchers. In times of crisis, the launchers could be dispersed over thousands of square miles on and off military reservations. But while military planners consider the Midgetman more survivable in a surprise attack than the MX, it is much more expensive: $39 billion for 500 missiles carrying 500 warheads...
Onstage, Legs tries to sidestep this problem by making Diamond a frustrated entertainer who gets into crime as a way of financing himself on Broadway. The character cannot be taken seriously, and neither can Peter Allen as an actor. A campy night-club entertainer who penned his own single-entendre lyrics for this show ("If you love me, let me see your knockers"), he brings a pervasive tone of self-mockery to every moment and is ludicrously dispassionate as a roguish ladies' man. Like most performers who customarily work solo, he seems unable to engage the audience in any guise...
While the lack of women's leadership has long been the topic for heated discussion, there has been little progress made. Women's losses can always be attributed to their personal characteristics or the specific situations they face. But these characterizations sidestep a crucial fact of our society--that the underlying perceptions of and biases against women who achieve may be undercutting them all along, regardless of their specific attributes...
...British army captain in 1980, should be deported to Britain rather than Ireland. Doherty, who entered the U.S. illegally in 1982 after escaping from a Belfast jail, faces life behind bars if he is sent to Britain. Meese's action was the Reagan Administration's latest effort to sidestep federal court decisions holding that Doherty is exempt from extradition to Britain on the grounds that his actions were politically motivated. Doherty's lawyers petitioned for a review of Meese's decision. Meanwhile, the defendant will remain in a New York City jail, where he has been held without bail...