Word: staunched
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...about the talks. Some oilmen in Britain, however, believe the U.K. might reach a tacit understanding with OPEC to avoid a price war. Further price cuts could, after all, drain revenues from the sagging British economy. But any agreement to limit production would go against Thatcher's staunch free-market philosophy, and would also violate contracts that give private companies, including British Petroleum and Royal Dutch/Shell, the right to pump North Sea crude...
...Lyudmila, for instance, who was the guiding force behind the 1981 celebrations of the 1,300th anniversary of the founding of the Bulgarian state. Halfway through the anniversary year, however, Lyudmila died at age 38 of a brain hemorrhage. Since her death, no one else has emerged as a staunch crusader for Bulgarian nationalism...
SUCH REVEALING and useful statements of MacLeish's literary convictions are one great advantage of such a collection. Another is the consistent political stance that emerges. A staunch believer in representative democracy, MacLeish quickly identified threats to the ideals of the Republic he believed in, whether from the left or the right. In the early thirties he was one of the first to attack the Marxist positions fashionable among writers and critics. An early objector to the House Un-American Activities Committee, he drew McCarthy's public condemnation, though he never actually had to testify. He detested Communism as "rotten...
Schweiker served for 20 years as a Congressman and Senator from Pennsylvania and was Reagan's vice-presidential running mate in 1976. A staunch advocate of basic medical research, he successfully defended the National Institutes of Health and the Public Health Service against cuts proposed by the Office of Management and Budget...
...girl's plight triggers a screechy, preachy political cat fight between Marlene and Joyce. Marlene is a staunch advocate of Margaret Thatcher, whom her sister derides as "Hitlerina." The question raised is provocative: Is the future to be divided between a smart, scrambling upper class of no-holds-barred individualists and a permanent underclass of poor souls who are unfit for the survival of the fittest...