Word: staunched
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Brady Proposal comes in the wake of almost 10 years of a staunch U.S. policy towards debtor nations: that is, that all the money loaned must be paid back in full eventually. This was one of the parts of Secretary of State James A. Baker III's debt plan...
Professor Jeffrey D. Sachs '76 has blamed Western banks such as Citicorp for greedily refusing to allow countries to restructure their debts. He even alleges that one of the causes of the U.S.'s staunch debt policy under Baker was the former Treasury Secretary's vested interest in Chemical Bank...
Papandreou's staunch denial of wrongdoing did not prevent rival politicians from calling for his resignation. "He is becoming a laughingstock with his repeated theories about plots," said Constantine Mitsotakis, head of the conservative New Democracy Party. Two members of the Prime Minister's own PASOK party, both former ministers, also called on Papandreou to step aside -- so far the only signs of internal revolt...
...ideal and imperative motives of national duty," said Ford Professor of Social Sciences, Emeritus David Riesman '31, a colleague of Parsons. While he said he was not aware of the accusations against Parsons, he added that the reported actions did not surprise him in light of the sociologist's staunch anti-communism...
This same allegation frequently comes from the staunch Republican power-types who are a bit disappointed when their fellow "fascist ally" (yours truly) seems to jump off the conservative bandwagon and join the liberal enemy when it counts most--at the dinner table. They can't understand why a so-called conservative would argue for things like the feminist critique of male-dominated society or the need to genuinely address and not simply pay lip service to the increasing social inequality of our nation, as manifested in the festering inner-city, the plagued family farm and the inhabited park bench...