Word: solidities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Reagan opened the 39th news conference of his presidency by uttering a "rock solid" pledge to veto any attempt in Congress to raise income tax rates. And he called on the House and Senate to adhere to the requirements in Gramm-Rudman legislation to make new spending cuts...
...nominee, Frances FitzGerald '62, is a well-known and well-respected left-wing author. She is also a member of the editorial advisory board of The Nation, as solid a leftist credential as there is. And Sen. Gore is certainly no appeaser of apartheid. He voted last summer for particularly harsh sanctions against South Africa. That will certainly have more effect on conditions there than Harvard hemming and hawing and "taking a stand for the values of equality and freedom that we ostensibly hold sacrosanct...
...husband had been in the armed forces, so they said they were entitled to a bed at navel bases in some cities--but not in Boston. They had stayed in run-down apartment for several weeks, and the experience had convinced them that the city is built on a solid heap of rates and cockroaches...
...nuclear stage of a war, and especially at the moment of transition to the nuclear stage, through the use of antisatellite weapons, space mines or other means. Many key land-based ABM installations will also be destroyed. The use of ballistic missiles with lighter warheads and solid-fuel missiles with decreased boost-phase time will require an excessive increase in the number of SDI space stations...
...supporting cast, Carolyn Duffy gives the most solid performance while Urso and Whitney are only adequate as Flora and Miles. One wonders why director Martin chose to have Harvey use a British accent, and the others use American accents. This inconsistency is disturbing and distracts the audience even during the play's better moments...