Word: steadfast
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last week Mittag declared, "Nothing and no one will divert us from the course of doing everything for the well-being and happiness of the people." If East Germans are paying any attention, steadfast pledges like that can only increase the flow of emigres to the West...
...Republican Party had a strong antiabortion plank in its 1988 platform, and George Bush has become a steadfast pro-lifer, though he got there by a meandering path. He was once quoted as opposing a constitutional amendment to declare that life begins at conception, and he once supported public funding for some abortions. On his first working day in the White House, however, the President addressed a group of pro-life marchers in Washington by telephone hookup, calling abortion "an American tragedy." Yet Republicans also know that their party's identification with the antiabortion cause could cost them votes...
...still reflect the mayor's more serious achievements: Harvard's voluntary payments to compensate the city for its tax-exempt property; city government attention to the hazardous side of Cambridge's many chemical and biotechnology companies; and above all, Vellucci's contributions to the rent control ordinance and his steadfast support for that...
...hadn't already promised the job to Jimmy Baker (the guy who showed me how to kick a little ass last week) I would have had you on my short list for secretary of state. Your steadfast refusal to divest Harvard's holdings from companies doing business in South Africa shows you understand the basic idea of foreign policy--the profit motive is far more important than morality. We can't let the concerns of thousands, even millions, of people effect our policy toward their nation. That would be just plain silly...
...largest barrier to opportunity isn't the Ku Klux Klan, but the White House. Ronald Reagan has been a steadfast opponent of the Civil Rights movement, while Vice President George Bush has shamelessly backed his hostile stance...