Word: utmost
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...before reporters and cheering subordinates in the State Department auditorium, simply read aloud his letter of resignation, which he had finally delivered, three hours after it had been accepted. He said about his successor Shultz: "My own knowledge of George and his experience, professionalism and integrity gives me the utmost confidence." Reagan and Haig both opened by announcing that they would answer no questions, and both left the podium quickly, ignoring shouts of "Why?" Reagan went by helicopter to Camp David shortly after his appearance. Later, a top White House aide was asked how Reagan felt about...
...bomb fell on Hiroshima, mankind has fought roughly 125 wars (of one sort or another), including the longest one in U.S. history. But all of these collisions fell short of the nuclear. They thereby seemed weirdly permissible: as sins, venial, not mortal. They were not, after all, the utmost we had to deal out in fatality. We did not drop what we might have dropped onto Hanoi. By this reasoning, nonnuclear bloodshed is forbearing and almost virtuous...
...name of the prevailing order or orthodoxy. When the war was over, people went back to muddling through--ideologies rose and fell, beliefs waxed and waned, fanaticisms spread and were eradicated. At worst, a generation of young men was wiped out. But now, war, fought to its utmost, carries with it the very real possibility (some scientists would say the certainty) of extinction. Not only the elimination of everyone alive today, but also of the next generations, however many until the sun explodes, and with them any human hope. That very horror--of a world left devoid of capitalists, communists...
...founders of Communism and its present-day defenders have always maintained that economic conditions determine social relations and political institutions; therefore, economic considerations should presumably enjoy a special precedence in the formulation of social policy. Yet practice has made a mockery of theory. The practitioners have done their utmost to divorce the art of the possible from the dismal science of economics. They have made power politics both paramount and as independent as possible from those concerns that govern the welfare of society...
...forum sponsored by the Harvard-Democratic Club, Rep. Geraldine Ferraro (D-N.Y.) said she has "utmost confidence" that the ERA will pass before its June 1982 deadline. "Women are the poorest segment of our economy" and are disproportionately hurt by cuts in social service spending, she added...