Word: staunch
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Francis Doris, a staunch abortion opponent, agreed that the debate was not over abortion...
...ways to cope with the surge in semiautomatic sales. Advisers from Barbara Bush to Los Angeles Police Chief Daryl Gates pleaded with the President to outlaw the guns. For several weeks Bush had discussed the semiautomatic-weapons dilemma with his friend Senator James McClure, an Idaho Republican and staunch gun-rights defender. The President was torn between wanting to protect the rights of sportsmen and the lives of police officers...
...Brady Proposal comes in the wake of almost 10 years of a staunch U.S. policy towards debtor nations: that is, that all the money loaned must be paid back in full eventually. This was one of the parts of Secretary of State James A. Baker III's debt plan...
Professor Jeffrey D. Sachs '76 has blamed Western banks such as Citicorp for greedily refusing to allow countries to restructure their debts. He even alleges that one of the causes of the U.S.'s staunch debt policy under Baker was the former Treasury Secretary's vested interest in Chemical Bank...
Papandreou's staunch denial of wrongdoing did not prevent rival politicians from calling for his resignation. "He is becoming a laughingstock with his repeated theories about plots," said Constantine Mitsotakis, head of the conservative New Democracy Party. Two members of the Prime Minister's own PASOK party, both former ministers, also called on Papandreou to step aside -- so far the only signs of internal revolt...