Word: surely
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Hart was sure about his own thinking. He knew the exact date of the next candidate debate. He will be aggressive there. When he speaks about the deficit, for example, he doesn't mince words about new taxes: the country needs them. "By Jan. 1," he said, "I'll have a piece of paper with numbers...
...Lutheran World Relief. "In relief situations, you often don't have a lot of time for dialogue." Says Laura Kullenberg, director of the Horn of Africa program run by Oxfam America: "This is a life-and-death situation, and our choices are limited. Our mission is to make sure food gets to people in need, not to make a political point...
Defenders will try to protect the pact by making sure that any refinements are expressed in the form of "declarations" or "understandings" that do not require negotiating a revised treaty with Moscow. California Democrat Alan Cranston, who will be a leader in the fight for ratification, says Senate approval will ultimately depend not on "who's for or against it" but on "who will withstand the killer amendments...
...water in the bottom. For a moment it almost seems that these salvage men, so thirsty for the details of the past, might take a sip of vintage 1907. But a 747 rumbles overhead, and the mood is broken. "Should we take the jug?" someone asks. "Sure," says Israel. "Somebody might want it." They pick up their tools and wander back to work...
...nipping Star Wars in the bud had led them to link SDI restrictions to the tentative wide-ranging agreements reached at the Reykjavik summit last year. Yet the Soviets have long pursued a tactic of linking and unlinking and then relinking SDI to other agreements; the idea is sure to come back to haunt a START agreement before the two leaders can clink glasses again in Moscow next year...