Word: unlessness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...subject of U.S. aid for the Contras,Reagan sent Congress a certification that there is"no reasonable prospect" of peaceful settlementand a democratic Nicaragua unless the aid iscontinued. The certification automaticallytriggers $40 million in additional aid unlessCongress disapproves it within 15 days...
Turn the page and read something else. Unless your fingers are coated with Super Glue...
...Unless we accept responsibility for our government, we leave its direction to people like William Casey, Oliver North, John Poindexter and others whose greatest claim to power may be a desire for it. Since the White House is now in the hands of a very capable man from Tennessee, the business of government likely will proceed smoothly for the last 23 months of Reagan's term. But to accept that situation would be irresponsible. We owe it to our democratic heritage and to our future to hold our leaders to standards of responsibility and competence...
...place created to heal ailing students and to confront illnesses in students who don’t feel like taking exams. They fulfill the latter function well, but they are far off from fulfilling the other--unless sleeplessness is some kind of revolutionary new cure...
...overthrow the rule of the comandantes? Americans value freedom in their own country. They would not tolerate the political conditions that Nicaraguans must suffer. There is no hope that Nicaraguans will enjoy anything near the liberty that Americans enjoy (and that the Nicaraguans were promised by the Sandinistas) unless their new tyranny is removed. How, then, does it serve American values to cut off aid to those trying to do the removing...