Word: sure
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...consider myself a semi-bright student who mastered the art of taking phone messages sometime in my early teens. Yet, as a housesitter, I must straddle the fine line between being honest (that the owners will not be home until August) and being discreet. After all, I'm not sure I want all of Boston proper to know that the owners are gone, and this young, inexperienced and often careless student is now a temporary resident...
Still, some analysts saw the meager sums as a symbol of the relative decline of America's economic clout. A top Administration official traveling with Bush conceded, "Sure, we could do a lot more to encourage economic reform in Eastern Europe. But we don't have the money. We are broke." Says Michael Mandelbaum, a Soviet scholar at the Council on Foreign Relations: "The foreign policy fruits of Reaganomics are that we are the world's largest debtor nation and have a budget deficit that constrains what we can spend...
...shortage of hotel space. Though the new maps are welcome, old habits die hard. Tourists renting cars still receive only partial route guides, which omit the roads to cities that are closed to visitors. "Maps are really not a requirement," observes Dutch traveler Robert Harting. "The police make sure you're on the right road...
Specifically criticizing Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist and Associate Justice Antonin Scalia, Rom credited former President Ronald W. Reagan with thoroughly investigating his Supreme Court nominiations, making sure that they would vote the way he wished them...
WHERE affirmative action suffers in principle, welfare suffers in practice. There is no doubt that any civilized society is responsible for the welfare of its citizens. And here is the true task of welfare--to make sure that its recipients and the children of recipients are guaranteed equal opportunity...