Word: staunched
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Haitian opposition, factious even in the best of times, is divided over what steps should be taken to achieve that goal. Some are advocating a boycott of any government-sponsored elections. Three trade unions have called for a general strike to begin this week. Many Haitians, even staunch nationalists in the slums and the posh capital suburbs, are calling for foreign intervention of some sort. A few are counseling insurrection. Says Father Jean-Bertrand Aristide, 34, a firebrand priest popular with the poor: "There is only one avenue to take, and that is revolution...
After the guns and the machetes had finished their gruesome work last week, Haiti's election-day bloodbath claimed another victim: U.S. support for the provisional government of Lieut. General Henri Namphy. Having insisted for months that Namphy was a staunch friend of democracy, despite mounting evidence to the contrary, White House officials were suddenly scrambling for a new policy to help restore order and ensure free elections. The search quickly swelled into an international debate over how far the U.S. and other countries should go to intervene in the affairs of Haiti. At the center of the dispute...
...N.Y.S.E. closes two hours early with a minute change in the Dow (up .33 points, to 1950.76). Pondering the incredible week, Manhattan Investment Banker Felix Rohatyn, a staunch critic of Reagonomics, says he sees a new world in which governments are "held hostage" by the financial markets. He adds, "We really do not know what we've created. It's high tech and it's transnational and more powerful than anything we could ever have imagined...
Thornburgh, who worked under Bork in the Justice Department from 1975 to 1977 in the Ford Administration, defended Bork as "a staunch believer in our Constitutional system" and predicted the judge "would be a distinguished member of the Supreme Court...
...would Justice Bork necessarily become the bellwether of an anti-Roe majority. The court still includes four staunch supporters of Roe: Harry Blackmun, the author of the decision, plus Thurgood Marshall, William Brennan and John Paul Stevens. Chief Justice William Rehnquist and Byron White both dissented from Roe and would probably vote against it again. Antonin Scalia is thought to be against abortion. Bork would make four firmly against. But Sandra Day O'Connor is a question mark, and may become the swing vote in any majority. While O'Connor believes the court has gone too far in preventing states...