Word: teeth
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...their activity is not authorized by any candidate's official organization.) Moreover, since NCPAC is not affiliated with a candidate, it is less accountable for the tone and content of its campaign. As NCPAC Chairman Terry Dolan has admitted, "A group like ours could lie through its teeth, and the candidate it helps stays clean." NCPAC played a loud but indefinite role in the defeat of four liberal Senators in 1980, but since then it has waned in power if not in dollars...
...public embarrassment is the least of the problem. One night last week I was preparing for bed when--Annnh! Annnh! Annnh!--the day's requisite alarm went off. No big deal, I figured, and continued brushing my teeth. After five minutes. I called the House superintendent's office and was assured the problem would soon be taken care...
President Reagan, who pledged during his campaign that he would scrap registration, has not only broken that promise, but has put more teeth into the provision. The Justice Department this summer began indicting non-registrants, and Benjamin H. Sasway, convicted in August, will this afternoon become the first American sentenced for such a "crime" since the Vietnam...
...deal with an ally you cannot trust? In the eyes of many in the Reagan Administration, that is the central dilemma confronting U.S. Middle East policy in the wake of the Beirut massacre. Teeth gritted, State Department and White House officials acknowledge that they must go on negotiating with the Israeli government of Prime Minister Menachem Begin, if only because any overt U.S. pressure would prompt disaffected Israelis to rally around him, making him even more defiant. But U.S. officials, despite their best diplomatic efforts, cannot hide a deep sense of betrayal. Put crudely, they now believe the Begin government...
...taken in most educators and administrators who have the ultimate responsibility for trying to salvage something from the public education system. Faced with the task of resurrecting collapsed schools and motivating uneducated teachers to function again, educators for the most part have had the sense to grit their teeth and ignore the SAT scores, trusting that if the wheels start turning again more visible achievements will follow...