Word: spite
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What is it going to take for Larry Holmes to get the recognition he deserves? In spite of being a champion, he is forced to accept equal pay and equal billing with an untested challenger, who in turn gets to be the subject of your cover story. Holmes may not be a Louis or a Marciano or an Ali, but then they are not Larry Holmes either...
...factor that probably influenced the Begin government's decision to accept the cease-fire was a rising public and political opposition within Israel to the war. In spite of the military successes, the country was touched more by sadness than euphoria as Israeli casualties mounted. Said one Israeli housewife: "I think everyone knows at least one family who has had a son or a brother or a son-in-law killed or wounded in this war." On Tuesday, some 250 Israeli women demonstrated in a Jerusalem park, carrying placards that proclaimed GIVE US BACK OUR SONS and WE BORE...
...spite of all this, these two eruptions have a good deal in common. Their timing alone connects them. In a letter to President Reagan the day Israel invaded Lebanon, Prime Minister Begin cited the example of Britain's act of self-defense, thus justifying his own nation's move. Other analogies are more certain. Both the British and the Israelis applied short-term solutions to long-range problems. Both could have avoided armed conflict through negotiations (though this would have been harder for the Israelis), but either because of carelessness, stubbornness, arrogance or suspicion, each chose not to. Both told...
...polite. It is often morally wrong. But the fact that he taped his conversations did not destroy Nixon's presidency. It was what he said in those conversations-his talk of hush money, his coaching of the cover-up and his tone of cunning and low spite...
...illuminate a student's basic abilities. Many have charged that high scorers on any such test are likely to be well-off and to have attended better high schools. Whitla, however, dismisses the notion that there exist "bright and noble savages"--students who could succeed here academically in spite of preparation so poor that they could not do well on Achievements...