Word: undoings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this shameful catastrophe, this disaster that has befallen the civilians [of Lebanon] and this threat to international peace. I believe the current leadership [of the Palestinians] has lost the justification for its existence. Out of this whole situation will perhaps come a new leadership that will be able to undo the disaster in Beirut, one that will be able to take over from the old leadership now that it has been defeated and discredited...
...raising a broad range of other taxes. They are doing this to make up for revenue lost to the recession and reduced handouts from Washington. Says Stephen Meyer, an economist with the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia: "It looks like rising state and other taxes will virtually undo the federal tax benefit." Adds Robert Rossana, an economics professor at Pennsylvania State University: "The net benefit of the federal tax cut will be very small for the large majority of U.S. taxpayers. It would take only a little bit of action by state and local bodies to wipe...
...psychological backlash against the press has also helped Nixon. From the moment that Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward began their pursuit of Watergate in the Washington Post, some Americans have subscribed to the theory that a liberal press was out to undo the results of the 1972 Nixon landslide. The implications of that belief are troubling: they carry the suggestion of a sort of cultural civil war, between Nixon's America and a suspect elite that trafficks mostly in information and services...
...significant level of Anglican reunification with Rome at present seems very remote, if not impossible. But the Pope and Archbishop may have begun a process that could undo the inertia. Aside from future reunification, the "dialogue of charity" among separated Christians, the Pope claims, may already be contributing to an atmosphere of world peace. As he said in Liverpool, "We have to resolve important doctrinal issues. Yet already mutual love, our will for unity, can be a sign of hope in a divided world...
...small brown paper bag. Inside, the police found heroin-evidence instrumental in Ross's conviction. An appeals court reversed that conviction, and last July the Supreme Court arrived at the same conclusion in a similar case. The Justices had said then that police could not constitutionally undo the opaque plastic wrapped around two bricks of marijuana stashed in the trunk of a California...