Word: stubborner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this molten singer-songwriter has just made her first album, Union, a diary of dashed love and stubborn hope set into layers of melody that will never let the memory loose. Her voice, bold and smoky, has the heft of Joan Armatrading's, a hint of the spiritual urgency of Van Morrison's and, all on her own, power to burn. Union, heard even for the first time, sounds eerie and immediately familiar too. Childs herself puts it perfectly in Dreamer: "You're the voice of a dream...
Criticism is aimed primarily at Elliott Abrams, the State Department's Assistant Secretary for Inter-American Affairs. Despite getting into trouble for misleading Congress about U.S. aid to the contras, Abrams still enjoys Shultz's support. Stubborn and often intolerant of dissent, he fought for what he saw as a worthwhile goal: ousting Noriega. But Pentagon brass, who balked at threatening Noriega with force, say Abrams gave little thought to the other possible effects of his actions. "Nobody disagrees that Noriega must go," says a senior Defense Department official. "We just think State ((meaning Abrams)) is bungling...
...March trade report, they discovered yet another discouraging fact: the monthly deficit with Japan stayed steady at $4.5 billion. Since that represents nearly half the total U.S. deficit, even the most optimistic Administration official would have to admit that the trade imbalance is likely to remain a stubborn problem for years to come...
...Except for extra pushups," Jack says. "George is a lazy person. He's really hard to motivate and he's more stubborn than...
...simply the duty of the media to carry this message, though they have so far failed in that task. Every rational person must join in a battle, in our schools, in our legislatures, in our national priorities, between reason and unreason, reality and fantasy. The foolish, stubborn old man who leads the opposing side must go, and all his ilk with him. We will never be able to confront our difficulties squarely with a President who thinks ketchup is a vegetable, Ed Meese is honest, and who guides the ship of state by the stars...