Word: undoing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...think I have always been well aware of the enormity of it, the difficulties, the fact that you cannot undo in a minute and a half what it has taken quite a long time to build up. I suppose if there is anything that has changed at all, it has been the deterioration of the economy, which makes the problem even more acute...
...scheme has a certain charm. He writes his memoirs, mailing them back o headquarters-and to the Soviets, the Chinese and anyone else who might be professionally interested. The agency falls all over itself trying to apprehend him before the final revelations can undo its secret activities completely. But aided by a once and present lover (Glenda Jackson), Matthau leads a mostly merry chase through much of the free world, keeping one jump ahead of his CIA pursuers until a happy, tricky ending is achieved...
...last night I did what they expected--cast my ballot for an open convention--against the advice of those who contend that "unbinding" the delegates would undo 12 years of reform efforts, against my own initial misgivings, and despite the probability that I risked attaching my self to a losing cause. What motivated me, however, was not blind loyalty to Kennedy as much as an instinctive rebelliousness against tying my own hands and wielding a club over my own head--and doing the same to all future delegates...
...house that former Chief Justice Earl Warren built was supposed to have been reduced to ruins. The current Supreme Court, which includes four Justices appointed by Richard Nixon and one named by Gerald Ford, was expected to undo many of the far-reaching precedents that Warren's liberal court fashioned between 1954 and 1969 on race, defendants' rights and other explosive issues. Yet as Chief Justice Warren Burger and his colleagues packed their summer bags last week, appraisers of their latest term agreed on one thing, if on little else: while some parts of the Warren Court legacy...
Spokesmen for official Soviet thinking are at once disillusioned, distrustful and implacably self-righteous about who is to blame for the decline of détente and who, therefore, must make the first move in a joint salvage operation. "It will take years to undo the damage done in the past few months," warns a member of the U.S.A. Institute. Moscow officials say privately that the Politburo's decision to invade Afghanistan was made much easier by three years of "hostile" Carter policies. "We had little to lose," says an expert on foreign affairs in Moscow. "Your Government had long since...