Word: facing
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...face of rising protests, congressional leaders urged House members to "hold your nose and vote" for the proposal. Bush gave them as much support as he could, canceling a campaign trip to lobby House members in small groups. While Bush played the good cop -- winning the support of a Florida Congressman by telephoning his sick daughter -- some of his staff engaged in hardball. On Monday chief of staff John Sununu enraged Republicans at a White House meeting by suggesting that the President might actually campaign against members of his own party who opposed the deficit package. When Pennsylvania Congressman Bill...
...government jobs that until now were open to upper-caste students. The competitive university system produces far more graduates than the job market can absorb, and young upper-caste Indians are extremely eager to find jobs that will pay well enough to meet their middle- class expectations. Now they face a situation where no matter how well they do in school, it will be considerably harder to get those posts. "Politicians are playing vote-catching gimmicks at our cost," says Abhishek Saket, 22, a history student at Delhi University. "I will end up a beggar or something." Says Madan...
...Bush's speech to the United Nations General Assembly last week. The President tried to send contrasting messages to two groups of allies. To relative soft-liners (France, the Soviet Union, several Arab states), he wanted to demonstrate that he was trying his best to offer Saddam Hussein a face-saving way to withdraw from Kuwait. That might also serve eventually to win more support for future military action against Iraq; the President would be able to argue that he had first exhausted all possibilities for a peaceful solution. Simultaneously, though, Bush wanted to tell hard-liners (Britain, Saudi Arabia...
...great northern powers -- Japan, Germany, the Soviet Union -- might not have found the stakes so high or the crisis quite so threatening. It has not penetrated our imagination that in a world where the powerful, industrialized nation-states are at last at peace, there might be other ways to face down a pint-size Third World warrior state than with massive force of arms. Nor have we begun to see what an anachronism we are in danger of becoming: a warrior nation in a world that pines for peace, a high- tech state with the values of a warrior band...
Each day brings a new 30-second affront to fairness. A picture of discredited Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis slowly dissolves into the face of Democratic Senator John Kerry in a spot for G.O.P. Senate challenger Jim Rappaport. A Jesse Helms ad in North Carolina lovingly replays in slow motion his Democratic Senate challenger Harvey Gantt mouthing the phrase "whether it's sex selection or whatever reason." Evidence that Gantt lied when he earlier denied that he favored abortion in such cases? Not quite. Gantt's words were snipped from a longer answer at a press conference restating his consistent...