Word: winging
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Under the National Unity agreement reached in 1984, the Israeli Cabinet is divided principally between the liberal Labor Party and its allies and the right-wing Likud bloc. Peres served as prime minister with Likud leader Yitzhak Shamir as his foreign minister through September 1986 when, under the terms of the agreement, they switched roles...
...Wing Lanny Thorndike and forward Scott Roberts take over for Jon Israel and Ray LaRaja as co-captains, and will lead the Crimson through a rugged schedule which should prepare the squad for the New England Championships at UMass in late October...
...supporters will argue that he is a fair, open-minded, brilliant jurist whose philosophy of judicial restraint represents a reasonable antidote to 30 years of excessive social activism by the court. His foes, led by Chairman Joseph Biden, will seek to show that he is a right-wing radical whose opinions and writings reveal a reading of the Constitution so constricted as to threaten basic principles of social justice and individual liberties that the nation now takes for granted...
...many people around the country, the Bork confirmation struggle is nothing less than a fight for the soul of American society. Evangelists like Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson speak of a Bork appointment as a kind of salvation for a morally misguided Supreme Court. Exulted Human Events, a right-wing journal: "The President . . . could advance his entire social agenda -- from tougher criminal penalties, to curbing abortion-on- demand, to sustaining religious values in the schools, etc. -- far beyond his term in office...
Reagan walked a fine line between showing enthusiasm for an arms deal and reassuring right-wing supporters who fret that he may be going soft in his quest to sign a treaty before the end of his term. The need to shore his right flank was particularly acute, because his retreat on verification came on the heels of his support for a Central American peace plan that conservatives fear could undermine the U.S.-backed contra rebels in Nicaragua. Though the President stopped short of repeating his earlier harsh depictions of the Soviet Union, he made clear that he still deeply...