Word: sooner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There were signs that war could come even sooner. Amid the rhetoric from the Soviet-backed government in Damascus, a Syrian jet fired an air-to-air missile at an Israeli reconnaissance plane over the Bekaa Valley, but the Israeli pilot successfully eluded it. Then, when the Syrians announced that they would stage large-scale maneuvers in the Bekaa, Israel placed its armed forces on alert and began a partial mobilization of reserves...
Challenged to clarify the difference, Foot and Healey produced a tortured compromise statement marked with internal contradictions. No sooner had it been cobbled together than it was upset by former Labor Prime Minister James Callaghan, who blasted the notion of unilateral nuclear disarmament. Polaris missiles, he declared, have "a life span of ten to twelve years as effective deterrents . . . and we should not give them up unilaterally." That sent a jolt through the party, and at week's end the continuing differences were so obvious that Foot was reluctant to answer questions on the issue...
...squeamish. If Democrats are scared to take a stand against interventionism in Central America, then they should give Reagan whatever he wants and let him accept the consequences. "Compromises" just prolong the violence, raising the death toll and possibly leaving a mess for a Democratic president to clean up. Sooner or later, someone has to take the heat for pulling out of E1 Salvador and Nicaragua, and Democrats should have learned by now that decisions like this cannot be postponed forever...
Narcoleptics go into REM sleep the stage of sleep during which dreams occur much sooner than normal patients, and more often during the night. There is also another form of the disorder known as cataplexy, in which the victim loses muscle tone and control of the body when experiencing strong emotions, such as excitement or anger. Stakes tells of one patient who, when he tried to punish his children by whipping them was unable to do so because when he tried to remove his belt he became "very limp and weak...
...since the early months of the Reagan Administration, and more important, many Americans have accepted polar positions that will prove hard to abandon. President Bok deserves much credit for being the catalyst of the finest nuclear study yet, but his efforts might have paid off better had they come sooner. Public education works best when it is both subtle and early. The belated Harvard presence--the white knight from Cambridge come to rescue the nuclear debate--could well invite scorn among its would-be readership...