Word: weres
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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According to a U.S. Southern Command statement, the officer was "off duty, unarmed and in civilian clothes when he and three others were stopped by Panamanian soldiers near the Defense Headquarters in the old section of Panama City."
The U.S. officers were in the area because they made a wrong turn and were lost, said Col. Ronald Sconyers, a Southern Command spokesperson.
"They are a good skating team--they the flow well, and they're very-well conditioned," the Harvard captain said. "When we played them in my freshman year they were very tough."
This isn't the place to argue whether Reagan-era economic policies were a net gain or loss for the country. Obviously, economic growth is good and helps everyone. And just as obviously, some distributional inequities are necessary concomitants of a vibrant capitalist economy.
The Winners may pay lip-service to equal opportunity, but in reality, they revel in the stacked-deck advantages of starting life as Winners. Competitive admissions to pre-school and the explosion of SAT coaching were strictly '80s phenomena for precisely this reason.