Word: staunched
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During Rhodesia's long, bloody civil war, Prime Minister Ian Smith was a staunch defender of a white Rhodesia and imposed draconian measures against black opponents. Now that Rhodesia has become Zimbabwe and blacks govern in the capital of Harare, once Salisbury, Smith, 63, has had reason to ponder some of his past actions: the same emergency powers that he invoked to defend white minority rule are being used against...
...cornerstone of the Federal Republic's foreign policy." That continuity was symbolized by the presence in the Cabinet of Foreign Minister Hans Dietrich Genscher, the Free Democratic Party leader who served in the same post under Kohl's predecessor, Helmut Schmidt, and who has been a staunch defender of U.S. leadership in the troubled Atlantic Alliance. Indeed, soon after taking office...
...taut $6.2 billion budget; some think the deficit will be much worse. Says State Treasurer Kenneth Biederman: "We are not seeing a recovery in terms of revenues. I do not know of any state that is." Last week Kean said he was considering drastic action. For this staunch backer of Reaganomics, that probably means a tax hike...
...well to Democratic hopes of a big anti-Reagan turnaround in today's voting. It ominous indeed that a solid moderate like Mitchell with a popular record on arms control and the environment--not to mention a volunteer force of 3,000 strong--isn't pulling away from a staunch Reaganite like Emery, who hasn't even run a very effective campaign. Mitchell has an even shot at pulling it out, but Democratic effort to capitalize on the country's economic travail could very well fail to Maine, where many people seem still to cling to the hopes of prosperity...
After the goal, Harvard's attack seemed to let up, but the Bruins never really threatened to tie the contest. Crimson netminder Juliet Lamont tallied her seventh shutout of the years, she has blanked half her opponents. As usual, a staunch defense kept attack on Laront few and far between...