Word: steadfast
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Roman Catholic Church has traditionally seen no contradiction in its opposition to abortion and its teaching that capital punishment can be morally licit. But Catholic criticism of the death penalty is growing stronger, even as the church remains steadfast in its belief that abortion is equivalent to murder...
Arafat has long been an anathema to those who view his terrorist tactics and steadfast refusal to accept Israel's existence as the obstacle to a negotiated settlement in the Middle East. Because of his intransigence, Arafat cannot expect (nor does be deserve) any country to come to his aid as his forces crumble in Tripoli...
Flynn toed the conservative line on social issues, coming out against ERA and abortion, and for capital punishment. He now has changed his views on ERA and the death penalty, but is steadfast on abortion. In short, while Flynn says he has grown since his early days as a South Boston state representative, the rapidity of his political shift raises serious concerns that he is no more than an opportunist...
...support his arguments. Such is the intellectual Buckley. In Overdrive, this Buckley yields far too often to the patrician Buckley. For years when Buckley ran support for the outcast Republican right, one could still laugh at his jokes, marvel at his elegance (some say arrogance) and appreciate his steadfast defense of conventional conservatism. Sometimes it could appear almost comical, the notion as he presents it, that a naturally egalitarian society could better itself by arbitrarily endowing some minority with excess wealth. But the patrician Buckley, by fueling liberal notions of conservative insensitivity and snobbery-could make the most brilliant...
...Carnegie Foundation also calls for federal funds and participation in setting up a network of residential math and science academies for gifted students and establishing a National Teacher Service that would provide scholarships for top students who want to become teachers themselves. Although President Reagan remains steadfast in his argument that schooling is a local responsibility, Secretary of Education Terrel Bell has already praised the Carnegie report for its "breadth and creativity...