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Word: waver (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...PHONIEST FLAG WAVER...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Best of 1991 | 1/6/1992 | See Source »

...enforcement agencies appear to waver in two extremes. It seems that the police either use excessive force and brutality, or aren't around when they're needed...

Author: By Kristine M. Zaleskas, | Title: The War Next Door | 4/13/1991 | See Source »

...suggest is one more flaw in our system of political assessment. In our dizzy campaigns we analyze a candidate too much from a few one-liners lofted by adversaries or twits. In the debate over terribly complex domestic issues, we frequently heap scorn on even marginally open minds that waver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: George Was There | 2/11/1991 | See Source »

...contrary, the group of non-respondents will likely grow more and more opposed to the war as the human costs of it escalate. Whereas your analysis presents community interest as polarized and well defined, the reality is that many students continue to waver, not entirely comfortable with U.S. policy, but not informed enough to reject it outright. Theodore Timpson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Poll Was Inaccurate | 2/7/1991 | See Source »

...nice to talk about standing up for freedom, but Kuwait and Saudi Arabia are not exactly democracies, and if their principal export were oranges, a mid-level State Department official would have issued a statement and we would have closed Washington down for August. There is nothing to waver about here." What Saddam offers the President, says another White House aide, is "a case where he knows what's right, he knows what the American people think, and he knows what he should do. Most important, he knows these are all one and the same thing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Gulf: Read My Ships | 8/20/1990 | See Source »

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