Word: staunched
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shortly after election day. But what he may not realize is that an entire species of not-so-evil people spend their lives working within the Washington system--lobbying, writing legislation, consulting, drafting regulations, and generally attending a lot of boozy receptions. At once victims of their environment and staunch defenders of the red tape that puts food on their tables, the journeyman laborers of government toil in virtual anonymity...
There are, however, good reasons why we have not seen an orgy of video-Luddism, if only to staunch the flow of the criticism. Leaving aside television's massive economic power, simply too many people enjoy the swampy scatology and licentiousness of Three's Company and WKRP, not to mention the soaps. They don't speak up in defense of their entertainment because they don't have to. Television isn't going anywhere. Besides, a sizable number of T.V. addicts, one suspects, have already spoken up--against the tube. They're not consciously being duplicitous: Most intelligent people would probably...
DIED. Charles Parlin, 83, former co-president of the World Council of Churches and former president of the World Methodist Council; in New York City. A staunch ecumenist, Parlin was the first American layman to be named to the six-member presidium of the World Council of Churches, where he served from 1961 to 1968. A lawyer, he defended Methodist Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam when the House Un-American Activities Committee investigated charges in 1953 that Oxnam had a Communist Party affiliation...
...Customs Service agents have been assigned to the region to chase down drug smugglers. South Florida can also look for help from Governor Graham. He is constantly lobbying Washington for more aid, and earlier this year he met with Baby Doc Duvalier in Haiti to discuss ways to staunch the flow of refugees. He lent 100 additional state troopers to Miami this year, and hopes to assign 115 troopers to Dade County permanently...
Although Kohl himself is a staunch backer of the missiles, he improvised a sentence in his keynote speech to placate younger, skeptical C.D.U. members. "We belong to the peace movement," he declared. "And we want disarmament and detente." Kohl also agreed to let 500 jeans-sporting youths, some not party members, have a voice at the convention...