Word: extraction
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...those who value a foreign policy that works for anti-communism, U.S. military bases and the multinational way can rest easy that conservatives will extract a quid pro quo for our withdrawl of support from Marcos. Their argument, as explained by Neo-Conservative guru Charles Krauthammer, is that if the U.S. is going to support democracy in the Philippines, well, then gosh darn we should support it in Nicaragua and Angola...
...garner even one of the big awards is entirely inexplicable. Easily the most original film of the year (with the possible exception of Terry Gilliam's Brazil or The Kiss of the Spiderwoman), this black comedy chronicling the adventures of Yuppie Everyman Griffin Dunne as he tries to extract himself from a darkened SoHo should have been a shoe-in for nominations in the Best Director, Best Actor and Best Actress category. What happened? Were all the members of the Academy sick the night that this film was screened...
...FACTS ARE THAT McKinney has patented a process of extracting THC--pot's active agent--from the marijuana plant; that the Food and Drug Administration has determined that THC can be sold to chemotherapy patients as an anti-nausea drug; and that McKinney subsequently established the Cannabis Corporation to extract and market the THC. All legal. All moral. All seemingly beneficial. Cannabis should be no more contemptuously labelled "a pot company" than should the pharmaceutical companies that manufacture synthetic...
...happen not to agree with their program or their methods. But candor and honesty do extract some sympathy on my part for their position...
...communist revolution will be furthered throughout my Harvard years, and perhaps after, through the medium of spectacular excesses in Rightist rhetoric....Conservatives everywhere will want to extract themselves from my claims in their name, and they will be unable...