Word: would
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...least one original sponsor still defends his offspring. Says Texas Republican Senator Phil Gramm: "It's bashing time for Gramm-Rudman, but our biggest critics are those who weren't for it to begin with. Without the law, our federal deficit would have been larger than...
...would have been a simple matter to melodramatize or caricature these soldiers' stories. But Atkinson maintains a tone of scrupulous neutrality, and he never loses the Point of his narrative. All along, his greatest character is the military academy itself, sustained by patriotic zeal in the '50s, pocked by controversy in the '60s and cheating scandals in the '70s, yielding in the '80s to a new national temper. Today women are admitted, there is a , course in ethics, and the incoming class is treated with unaccustomed humanity. "Demanding but not demeaning" is the cadre's new motto. Only the school...
...trade has brought revenues used for conservation efforts and improvements in local communities. Zimbabwe, for example, carefully culls its herds without depleting them. Ivory from this culling brings in foreign exchange to Zimbabwe, which guards its elephants against poachers. But the delegates in Lausanne feared that any legal trade would be used as a cover by smugglers, as in the past. Angered by that stance, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Mozambique and Burundi say they may defy...
...told the government that there would be no solutions unless it met with the African National Congress and that it was the duty of the government to create the necessary conditions...
...cell I was alone but guarded all the time by a ((white)) warder. He would make comments and become very hostile when he saw certain things about the A.N.C. on TV. I then took a chance to talk to him, to educate him. In the end, he understood...