Word: slights
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...interview may represent a slight softening of the Soviet line toward the U.S. It was the first apparent indication that progress on at least some of the four issues might permit resumption of the stalled negotiations on offensive weaponry. Chernenko's remarks were especially significant in their timing, five days before Sunday's presidential debate on foreign policy. The Soviet leader obviously wanted to help set the agenda for the discussion and perhaps give a slight boost to Democratic Candidate Walter Mondale. Indeed, three of Chernenko's proposals-the nuclear freeze, ratification of the test-ban treaties...
...passed just before Congress adjourned. Last week, as federal prosecutors, defense attorneys and judges across the country began implementing the 635-page law, its backers and critics agreed on one thing. As New York Federal Prosecutor Rudolph Giuliani put it, "In each area of the bill, there is a slight shift in favor of the Government and away from the criminal defendant...
...back, by Vice President George Bush last week. In a televised debate in Philadelphia Thursday night with Mondale's running mate, Congresswoman Geraldine Ferraro, Bush presented the Administration's case more ably than Reagan had four nights earlier. Indeed, though Ferraro also argued impressively, most analysts gave Bush a slight edge (see following story). But the next day, Bush squandered some of the benefits with one of the silliest blunders of the campaign. After a rally in Elizabeth, N.J., on Friday, a television boom mike caught him whispering to a longshoreman that "we tried to kick a little ass last...
Despite the slight improvement in the approval process, Ridings said that she would not deal with campaign subordinates but would seek to discuss the process and perhaps establish a list during a conference telephone call with Mondale Campaign Chairman James Johnson and White House Chief of Staff James Baker. After the campaign is over, the League is considering meeting with reporters and political figures to work out a new system that will give candidates less leeway in exercising a veto. Says Ridings: "We do not expect journalists to be political eunuchs. We all have our thoughts and beliefs...
...known as reductio ad absurdem. In politics it is known as the oldest excuse for inertia. Who knows what the immediate effects of Harvard divestment would be for South Africa? The psychological/political element, if considered at all, is vastly underestimated I think, and even if the economic effects are slight, the example set by Harvard will have lasting value both in South Africa as during the Olympics, and although no one would argue that denial of the broadcast rights to South Africa hurt the regime economically or in any "substantial" way, the news was front page for weeks...