Word: wishfulness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...African nation's leaders are worried that the Reagan Administration may back rebel forces against Addis Ababa, just as it supports contra efforts to oust the Marxist-Leninist Nicaraguan regime. Yet officials in Washington, which provided $282 million in emergency aid to Ethiopia last year, say they have no wish to topple Mengistu. Notes a senior diplomat: "We've told the Ethiopians that we would like to engage in a serious dialogue with them. Every time we propose a place and a time, we are rebuffed...
Acertain statue was recently hyped so vulgarly that every columnist on the East Coast has had a crack at the 200 Elvis impersonators. The celebration affirmed this country's wish to be symbolized accurately by a beacon of liberty and equal opportunity...
...memory that has never been an action like this from the legal world. I wish I could expect a little more from U.S. senators," Bennett said...
Still, despite the boost given to autologous donation when President Reagan mentioned it during a recent interview, the panel did not look kindly on its use by people who simply wish to stockpile their blood for a rainy day. The practice, which is made available by a host of new commercial blood banks, might threaten the supply of blood available to the general public. This concerns the American Red Cross. "The present system provides the opportunity for individuals who are healthy to provide blood for individuals who are sick," says Red Cross Vice President Gerald Sandler. If too many people...
...Prime Minister at the time of the bus hijacking and is scheduled to assume that post again in October under a power-sharing arrangement in which he and Peres are to switch jobs. Some observers are convinced that behind the Shin Bet controversy is a Labor Party wish to keep Shamir from taking power. Shamir denies any wrongdoing, and he has stubbornly opposed an official inquiry. But at week's end he finally acceded to a limited investigation. All the time Shamir continued to maintain that in this case, the rule of law must bow to Israel's security interests...