Word: staunchest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hopes to be successful. It is time for the faculty to allow for a diverse range of opinions and concentrate on equally pressing issues like inadequate facilities and poor student-teacher ratios. By leaving his own rhetoric behind, Clark would set a good example that even his staunchest political enemies could follow...
...news of Stroessner's political demise with little optimism. Despite some appealing rhetoric, few believe Rodriguez will institute democratic reform. "Most likely, it's going to be more of the same," said a senior military analyst. The anti-Communist Stroessner has long been one of Washington's staunchest backers. But his dismal record on human rights compelled successive U.S. Administrations to denounce Stroessner as a dictator...
...point the proceedings were interrupted by a spicy dispute involving the weekly magazine Ogonyok, which has emerged as one of the staunchest supporters of glasnost -- and one of the most daring probers of its limits. Shortly before the conference convened, the newspaper had alleged that several unnamed delegates from the Central Asian republic of Uzbekistan were guilty of accepting bribes. When the conference's credentials chairman said it would take time to subject the charges to official investigation, there were shouts for Ogonyok Editor Vitali Korotich to substantiate them himself. Korotich gamely came to the podium and explained that...
Even Nixon's staunchest defenders left his side once he released the tapes, which undeniably showed the President to be guilty of trying to halt the investigation. As one young White House staff member was quoted as saying, "Oh, those bastards...who've been saying all these things about the president all year--those bastards I hated, they were right...
...Keynsians are in agreement with conservative economists, including some of Reagan's staunchest supply-siders, such as Jude Wanniski. They fear that increasing taxes would only stifle private spending and decrease tax revenues, thereby increasing the deficit...