Word: spite
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Managua's attempts at conciliation in spite of this Administration's policy of confrontation was an ideal opening for Washington to come to a settlement with the Sandanistas. After all, the Nicaraguans were the ones backing down, an all important consideration given Reagan's John Wayne style of diplomacy. And the increasing criticism from this country of Salvadoran human rights excesses appeared of late to be producing a few positive results: for example, the Ministry of Defense transfered and demoted several officers accused of rights violations, including the intelligence heads of the Treasury Police--noted rights abusers--and the National...
...adopts the new option, Harvard should make clear that it will remain just that--an option. And in spite of the prediction figures, it should restrain its public enthusiasm for the Achievement Tests and be extra careful to look at the scores in light of students' high school backgrounds. Otherwise, the Harvard name could spur colleges across the nation to take a giant step backwards...
...Infidels, he seems reconciled to restlessness. He also sounds full of fight and the same kind of lacerating spite that passes through the heart like a spike. Jokerman, the album's stunning opener, carries a typically barbed and enigmatic rebuke: "You're going to Sodom and Gomorrah/ But what do you care? Ain't nobody there would want to marry your sister." The jokerman of the title, like many of Dylan's metaphorical protagonists, is part salvation hunter, part satanic twister, and the whole record is like a loosely arranged pilgrim's progress through emotional...
...parliamentary vote, former Chancellor Helmut Schmidt appealed to a special conference of the opposition Social Democratic Party to support the deployments. West Germany, Schmidt told some 400 delegates, "must keep to its word in spite of all the disappointments about speeches and about behavior in Washington." He added: "My second reason is that the political equilibrium would be enduringly disturbed if the Soviet Union forged ahead with its unprovoked, one-sided buildup." The speech received only perfunctory applause. Said a delegate: "We see his voice as a voice of the party's past." At the urging of former Chancellor...
...spite of the [new UHS] hygiene course. I don't want to betray a table image by wearing cock roaches on my shirt. "Says manager D. Kim bro Services '84 adding. "This a classy establishment." Whether the slogan will change remains unclear...