Word: staunch
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Kennedy strategy is unlikely to work. Rule 11H also empowers a candidate to replace wavering delegates with staunch supporters. To identify potential defectors, about 75 Carter supporters are now researching the backgrounds of all Carter delegates. In addition, staffers phone the delegates regularly to encourage them to stay loyal. Said Tom Donilon, a Carter campaign aide: "There is no evidence of defections anywhere. But we are not taking any chances...
...Congressman Barber Conable, a member of the Budget Committee: "There is a substantial aura of make-believe about our prognostications." After the House vote, the budget battle moved to the Senate, where Ernest Hollings of South Carolina has succeeded Edmund Muskie as chairman of the Bud get Committee. A staunch supporter of increased military spending, Hollings is expected to press for deep cuts in domestic programs and a bigger Pentagon budget. In the end, the Senate too is expected to produce a balanced budget, but one that will stay balanced only in the unlikely event that the economy cooperates...
...pick-up strips outside Jeddah or Riyadh, and that the whole picture of royal carnality in the film is a gross distortion. Reports TIME'S Beirut bureau chief William Stewart: "In Saudi Arabia, of all places, such a scene is unimaginable. By and large, the Saudi rulers are staunch Wahhabis, a sect with in Islam roughly akin to the Puritans. No doubt the thought of sexual dalliance must occur to some princesses (there are a lot of them), but that does not make Jeddah or Riyadh an Arabian Nights version of La Dolce Vita...
Muskie also had superb political credentials. He was both a staunch supporter of a President who values loyalty highly, and a respected member of the chamber that must confirm him. Muskie's confirmation hearings are unlikely to turn into a Senate inquisition of the Administration's foreign policy...
...book makes him a horseless rider. Writer Mark Bramble has sketched in the details of Barnum's career like a superficially canned guided tour. We can grasp Barnum's relish for humbuggery (There's a Sucker Born Ev'ry Minute), but not the calm, staunch loyalty his wife (Glenn Close) displays even during his dalliance with "the Swedish Nightingale," Jenny Lind (Marianne Tatum...