Word: tion
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Reporters, however, quickly turned up 1980 newspaper clippings and TV footage showing that Bush had supported federal funding for abortions in case of rape, incest and danger to the life of the mother, and had opposed an antiabortion amendment. "I don't recall it as being my posi tion then," Bush said about this evidence. Didn't that damage his credibility? "No," he replied. "There's an awful lot of things I don't remember...
...appointment, members of the party politburo met in emergency session at the Communists' fortress-like glass-and-steel headquarters. Despite three hours of deliberation, they were unable to agree on how to react. The indecision continued even after Party Leader Georges Marchais had hastily returned from his vaca tion on the beaches of Rumania. A Communist delegation met with Fabius to ask for guarantees that the fight against unemployment would receive priority over the government's austerity policy. Later, the central committee announced that it was "not satisfied with the answers that Mr. Fabius gave...
...robust American economy has also made the U.S. a land of investment opportunity. Unlike other developed nations, America is currently basking in a sunny combination of strong growth and moderate infla- tion. After expanding at an annual rate of 9.7% in the first quarter and an estimated 5.7% in the second, the U.S. gross national product is expected to increase some 5.5% during all of 1984, or more than twice as much as the average for other industrial countries. U.S. inflation, meanwhile, has fallen to less than 5%. Last week the Government reported that wholesale prices did not increase...
...from the murk of suspicion and ambiguity. General Edward Rowny, the chief U.S. negotiator at the Strategic Arms Reduction Talks (START), began the week on what appeared to be an upbeat note by declaring that if the Soviets return to the bargaining table, "we are now in a posi-tion to make a breakthrough." He suggested that the U.S. might trade some of its edge in bombers and air-launched cruise missiles for Soviet cutbacks in its lead in heavy land-based missiles. He also indicated that the U.S. might be willing to merge START with the Intermediate Nuclear Force...
...while, is all I can possibly know of it. The wild gas, the fixed air, is plainly broke loose; but we ought to suspend our judgment until the first effervescence is a little subsided, till the liquor is cleared and until we see something deeper than the agita tion of a troubled and frothy surface. I must be tolerably sure, before I venture publicly to congratulate men upon a blessing, that they have really received one." Which is to say that when people or ideas are unfettered, they are freed but not yet free. To be free, in fact, seems...