Word: surely
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...administrator of a Florida psychiatric hospital stares blankly into the television camera as the reporter bores in on him. "What kind of degree does your admissions clerk have?" asks the correspondent, who has already shown us how the hospital readily admits children for extended stays. "I'm not really sure," responds the administrator wanly. "Well, yesterday I looked," the reporter says. "He wasn't a nurse. He wasn't a doctor. Isn't that a little strange...
...programs. That choice undergirds the election, but never have the terms of philosophic battle been defined for the voters. This vagueness provides protective camouflage for Bush, who has artfully used evocative phrases like "a kinder, gentler nation" to mask the passivity of his domestic agenda. He has, to be sure, advanced his own proposals on education and day care, but they do not seem to spring from deep personal conviction. ! Rather, they have been offered to the voters -- and may someday even be enacted into law -- to take the edge off the negativism of the rest of the Bush campaign...
...Vice President, to be sure, has far greater firsthand knowledge of East-West relations and the concerns of European allies. But Dukakis would bring to the presidency an equally strong instinctive understanding of the economic threats to the nation's security from both Japan and an increasingly integrated European Community...
...declared, "We built a country east and west and north. We built it on an infrastructure that deliberately resisted the continental pressure of the United States. For 120 years we've done it. With one signature of a pen, you've reversed that. It will reduce us, I am sure, to an economic colony of the United States...
...world that the society is sending its 11 million members, the Soviet Union has lost 18 million sq. mi. -- more than two-thirds of the territory it appeared to encompass on the National Geographic's maps for the past half-century. The diminution, to be sure, is only on paper, but to millions of map readers the world over, perception is reality. And that reality is about to be changed by the National Geographic's new map, which will probably become the standard for cartography...