Word: startingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Then you better start swimmin...
Much of the time Fryal is terrified that Israeli soldiers will break into the apartment and take her men away for interrogation. Remembering such nighttime incidents, she blinks back tears. "I start bleeding inside when I see my husband humiliated and my sons beaten." Yet she does not attempt to dissuade her sons from active involvement in the uprising. Opening a photo album, she stares at the face of the Khaled she remembers as a "very quiet boy, obedient and very sensitive." In the next breath she proudly praises him as a "Palestinian nationalist...
...collusion with North, Reagan insisted, "The things we're blocking are the things that duty requires we block." He would not pardon North before a trial, he said, because anyone accepting a pardon would live "under a shadow of guilt." Since Federal Judge Gerhard Gesell hopes to start the trial in late January, any pardon after a possible conviction would have to come from the new President, George Bush...
...incipient Administration's foreign policy is already off to a good start. Bush's appointments of James Baker as Secretary of State, Brent Scowcroft as National Security Adviser and Nicholas Brady as Treasury Secretary have generally been well received, both at home and abroad, and the public statements from the President-elect himself on defense and diplomacy have reflected his considerable experience in those fields...
...heard from the government, such as that military and pure research often produce "spin-off" applications possessing great value, are not very convincing claims. A science policy based on the expectation of serendipity is not terribly rational. We would be better served by aiming at practical technologies from the start...