Word: surely
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bush was acting like a candidate whose New Year's resolution was never to turn the other cheek. "I'm not sure that being in Congress all your life is part of the answer," Bush said in Washington. "I think it may be part of the problem." His message to Dole: "So tell him to get off my back. He's just begun to see the Silkworms coming across...
Despite Vellucci's reputed hatred for the University, Associate Vice President for State and Community Affairs Jacqueline O'Neill isn't so sure he really means...
...threatened to put LSD into the city's water supplies, to drug the delegates' food, to get "hyperpotent" male Yippies to seduce the delegates' wives, to paint cars to look like taxis and kidnap delegates to Wisconsin. The underground Express Times warned, "If you're going to Chicago, be sure to wear some armor in your hair" -- a sardonic echo of the sweet flower-child tune of the summer before ("If you're going to San Francisco, be sure to wear some flowers in your hair...
...Sure, it's fun to go fast. But several lawmakers complained last week that matters were whizzing by out of control when Congress agreed to allow states to raise the speed limit to 65 m.p.h. on local highways. In a feat of legislative legerdemain, proponents of the higher speed limit attached an amendment to the $600 billion 1988 spending bill, bypassing the safety-minded House Public Works and Transportation Committee...
...Gorbachev's proposal, and the reaction it stirred in Washington, served to underscore the role that surveillance technology plays in arms control. Glasnost is nice, but the success of an agreement like the new ban on intermediate-range nuclear weapons depends upon electronic eyes and ears that make sure both sides keep the deal. "Verification has always defined the outer frontiers of what we can achieve in arms control," says Kenneth Adelman, former director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency and a prominent adviser to President Reagan. "We can control effectively only what we can verify...