Word: steadfast
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...year to $4,000. But the battle has brought him closer to his "English" neighbors. "They are truly brothers," he says of Caiazza and Gardner. "I can't say enough of what's in my heart about them." His faith in his country remains steadfast, even though a bit shaken. "I still love America," he says. "I won't betray her. But sometimes it is difficult for a man to know what is right and what is wrong...
When Reagan was riding high in the saddle, his resolve and steadfast determination elicited praise and lent him an image as a commited and unwaivering leadership-s President who did what he laid. Now Reagan's initiatives appear carelessly and irresponsibly constructed. The dissension among his staff and Republican leaders now make Reagan seem a simpleton, typecast and mean-spirited. During Reagan's honey moon with both press and Congress he could afford rigid and dogmatic complacency. The press's belated but welcome scrutiny can only help make him reconsider-or stick to his guns and face political stalemate...
Reagan was steadfast on these two points. Said he: "We cannot back away on national defense without sending a message to the world that would be very unwise." As for the supply-side tax cut: "To abandon our tax policy now would be to give up the very fundamental thing that is required to expand our economy." He thus seemed to retract some of the flexibility suggested by Budget Director David Stockman in testimony to the House Budget Committee two days earlier. Stockman rejected proposals that the Pentagon budget could be cut by more than $20 billion, but he gave...
...going transformation. Of course, there can be no stinting of political effort on foreign policy issues like El Salvador. All the traditional methods will have some effect; grass roots mobilization, so effectively achieved in the last two years by opponents of nuclear weaponry; intimidating of the Democratic Party into steadfast support of a strong human rights posture; and marches and sit-ins and slogan changing. But at best that will not be enough to do more than change policy as it regards El Salvador. It will not change the basis of our oppressive international rule...
Sands keeps things going by maintaining the light touch which is the show's greatest strength. At times it goes too far, as with the cast's steadfast refusal to give the graceful 17th-century lines any more emphasis than they would modern English. Despite the modern clothes, the translation of pounds to dollars, Sheridan's language deserves the flourish and emphasis of the Old World; without it, only the verbosity carries through...