Word: staunched
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...House, which begins voting on the budget this week, was fairly close to legislative anarchy. Seven budgets had been drafted by the end of last week: three major ones by Democratic leaders headed by Speaker Tip O'Neill, Republican leaders and a bipartisan coalition of moderates; one by staunch conservatives, two competing ones by liberals and one by the 18-member Black Caucus. In addition, floor rules will permit votes on 68 separate amendments. House Republican leaders produced a budget that looks very much like the Senate document but, somehow, projects $ 15 billion less spending. How did they accomplish...
Nonetheless, Thatcher still had staunch public support. According to recent public opinion polls, her government enjoyed 71% approval, even though the disapproval rating had risen from 20% to 25% in one week. More important, Thatcher's Conservative Party last week won a plurality of about 40% in nationwide local elections, the largest percentage of any party since age of any party since World War II. The nation was still rallying behind a leader beset by foreign foes...
...impressive figure standing ramrod straight at 6 ft. 2 in., Galtieri enjoys a reputation in Washington as tough and shrewd. He is considered a potentially warm ally of the U.S., where he studied army engineering in 1960-61. Despite his credentials as a political hard-liner and staunch antiCommunist, Galtieri was not directly identified with the political oppression that engulfed the country after the over throw of Isabelita Perón in 1976, resulting in the disappearance of more than 6,000 opponents of the regime...
...legislatures of two-thirds of the states; so far, 31 of the necessary 34 states have done so. Never before in U.S. history has there been such a convention, and there would be no legal way to prevent it from reconsidering any part of the Constitution. Even staunch opponents of the Hatch amendment regard his proposal as by far the lesser of two evils...
...MISUSE OF THE CONCEPT of apology has become a hallmark of the Reagan Administration. Often, the President's pronouncements take the form of a staunch refusal to apologize, perhaps born of a desire to cultivate a tough-guy image. Usually, Reagan emboldens his notions with an appeal to morality; it is right to spend injudiciously on defense while slashing entitlements; it is right to cut taxes; it is right to repel the pervasive Soviet/Marxist threat. Any apology reveals itself to Reagan as a sign of weakness...