Word: solids
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When Ronald Reagan won the presidency by a landslide, he seemed to have a national mandate backing his repeated calls for stronger U.S. defenses and a forceful response to any Soviet challenge. But how solid is that support three years later...
...fire from one or more of the religious groups that see the U.S. as an enemy. "The President has overstated the objective," contended Indiana Congressman Lee Hamilton, a conservative Democrat and a senior member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. "We're not going to achieve it: a solid, united Lebanon from border to border. We're not willing to commit the military assets to achieve that objective...
Talking Heads: Burning Down the House (David Byrne); Once in a Lifetime (Byrne and Toni Basil). Psychedelic drawing-room comedy and fine-tuned anxiety, with a solid foundation of funk. If there were a contest for best of the best, Byrne would be the one to beat...
...enough to suggest that the ratings of past Presidents are not likely to change much in the future. The two scholars concluded from their data that those historians who participated made their rankings not on the dubious grounds of personality traits like idealism, flexibility and obduracy, but on the solid dimensions of actual presidential accomplishments...
...Homicide Detective David Calhoun, it seemed at first like a rock-solid case. A minister and his two children had been walking by a Houston motel last month when they saw three men spill out of one of the rooms. Two of them were shooting the other while he begged for mercy. The churchman saw the murderers clearly and Calhoun knew that he was going to make a "super witness." But then the minister was paid a visit by two men, once at his home and again outside Houston police headquarters on the day he was to identify one captured...