Word: winging
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...United States had a choice to replace Ortega with either a right-wing dictator who would restore "order" back to Nicaragua or a newly-developed democratic system, it would likely choose the dictator. It did so in El Salvador...
...post-Watergate world, we have all become suckers for smoking guns and Murphy exploits this weakness in his readers to the hilt. His telling of the confirmation hearings is breathtaking, with Strom Thurmond, Sam Ervin and others titans of the Senate's conservative wing desperately trying to pin down their cagey witness, while Murphy treats his readers to the bombshells that his inquisitors never could draw...
...with Duarte were often strained, is gearing up for new fighting. A series of high-level changes, announced in Duarte's absence, put hard-line officers in charge of five out of six brigades as well as the intelligence and personnel branches of the armed forces. If the right- wing Nationalist Republican Alliance party wins the presidency next June, as is widely predicted, analysts expect the army to launch an all-out campaign against the FMLN...
...mother with small children would get a tax credit or refund of $1,000 -- whether or not she used it on outside child-care services. Bush argues that his bill is better because it keeps the Federal Government out of the day-care business. It also placates the right wing of the G.O.P., which, unlike Bush, is not yet sure workingwomen are such a good thing. Ethel Klein, author of Gender Politics and a professor of political science at Columbia University, says the bill is "aimed at helping women stay at home...
THORNBURGH will also be praised today for being a moderate rather than an ideologue. He is a Republican in the tradition of Rockefeller and Howard Baker, two men coming from the more widely respected wing of the party. To many moderates, including moderate Democrats who voted for Reagan in 1980 and '84, the choice will appear to indicate that a Bush administration will be more in the mainstream than the Reagan administration has been...