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...present internal revenue code, 2,052 pages long and decades in the making, is for some the symbol of government bureaucracy at its most inefficient. But it has the staunch support of diverse special interest groups which benefit from tax deductions for everything from cow breeding to three-martini business luncheons...
Thundrous applause greeted Sylester "Rambo/Rocky" Stallone and his svelte fiance Brigitte Nielsen, both staunch Reagan supportors, it appears. Then came Don DeFore, and Esther Williams, and Juanita Booker, and Roy Rogers, and Chad Everett, and Ephraim "FBI" Zimbalist, and Fred MacMurray, and Charlton Heston...and the list goes on. Reagan's Ambassador to Mexico was there, too, but he was upstaged by his actress wife...
...conservatives, he is a staunch moralist determined to see that the U.S. legal system protects the nation's traditional values. To progressives, he is an overreaching ideologue intent on using the Justice Department to dismantle two decades of legal advances. After just six months in office, Edwin Meese has proved to be one of the most blunt-spoken and activist Attorneys General since the New Deal. At his ceremonial swearing-in last March, the country's chief lawyer made his new role clear: "This department will be fiercely independent in . . . upholding the law. But this is not inconsistent with conscientiously...
...vehicle is David Treadup, born in upstate New York of staunch Anglo Saxon stock. Everything about Hersey's protagonist is perfect for the story he wants to tell. We follow Treadup's youth in the late 19th century, his early interest in science, his athleticism, and his growth to study, 6-ft., 4-in., 230-lb. menhood. Hersey clearly intends these introductory chapters to create a dominant image in the reader's mind of the hidden (and sometimes not so hidden) impulses in American ideology which prompted the missionary wave almost a century...
Although Reagan, has agreed to stop at the site of Bergen-Belsen in addition to the Bitburg cemetery, nevertheless his staunch refusal to reconsider the Bitburg visit rightfully has provoked dismay about the President's grasp of the gravity of his action. His outrageous remarks last Thursday, in which he called the suffering of the Nazi soldiers comparable to that of murdered victims, shows an astonishing lack of comprehension and sensitivity which is appalling and frightening...