Word: spite
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...astronauts started nine days of more formal debriefings, answering the questions of their engineering colleagues, doing a stint in the flight simulator to check whether it accurately reflects what happens in space, and reporting to the space center's director, Christopher Kraft Jr. The preliminary verdict: in spite of problems before and during the flight, Columbia was, in that venerable NASA expression...
...East picture was just one of the problems that the Saudi campaign, for all of its hopeful aspects, posed to U.S. policymakers. If the Fahd plan is approved at the Fez summit, Washington would come under increasing pressure from its own Western allies to deal with the P.L.O. in spite of Israeli protests. Said one senior State Department official: "It will mean a new ball game in the Middle East. People will say, 'The P.L.O. has finally done what the Americans have wanted it to do. It has accepted Israel's right to exist, so there should...
...relationship than we have with them in Europe." In meetings with heads of states "in every instance... they have responded with statements to the effect that they had better relations than they've ever had before with our country." Was this just seller's enthusiasm, or in spite of all evidence to the contrary, did Reagan really believe it? Had he reached such conclusions as a result of his genuine hospitality as host along with his known reluctance to get into contentious details? An astonishing insight into Reagan's attitude, this was the most disquieting and lasting...
...none of these things would have served Mr. Stockman one whit better than the Trojan horse image, which, in spite of its essential flaw, still combines deception with dignity. So does Mr. Stockman. Chagrined now, he turns his figure of speech against himself, contending that it is he who has assumed the role of the "wooden beast without a brain." But the image is inappropriate again. Mr. Stockman is far from brainless, and hardly a beast. He has simply risked his kingdom for a metaphor...
That's not surprising, because he does have talent. He had enough skill and determination to be a two-year starter, in spite of the fact that Harvard didn't recruit him. "All the other schools I applied to recruited me--Army, William and Mary, practically every team we played this year recruited me--but not Harvard. Harvard didn't have its act together in Washington that year," he jokes, "but that didn't matter, because I wanted to go to Harvard...