Word: hides
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only sorry that in your article "Opening the Tax Battle" [July 7] you didn't mention the insult to the intelligence of the American public by the candidates trying to hide behind tax-cut promises until they can slide through another election. They could have at least tried to find something more believable to make promises about...
They certainly do not look like the characters they play in their latest film, spaced out low riders in search of women, drugs and a good time. But their tan, Hollywood looks cannot hide their passion for pot and they, as cultural heroes for millions of fryheads, are quick to offer counsel on the subject of marijuana...
After two days of brutally frank talks, a Soviet concession. "In a difficult world situation, we had I difficult talks." So said West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt last week, summarizing a mission that had been fraught with perils. Washington had done little to hide its misgivings about the first visit by a Western leader to the Soviet capital since the invasion of Afghanistan six months ago. Like some of Bonn's allies, the U.S. was apprehensive that Schmidt might undermine Western solidarity by appearing as an appeaser, eager for detente for Europe at any price. Schmidt's political...
Whatever unity, cosmetic or genuine, was produced in that mirage of a city, Venice, could not hide the reality of the deep fissure between the U.S. and Europe. The decline of American strength that so impresses and distresses the Europeans is undeniable (see NATION). This weakening-in economic thrust, military force and will power-constitutes a crisis in American history. Unquestionably it has been aggravated by the Carter Administration's devastating policy zigzags and frequent ineptness. But it must be said, between friends, that the Western European estimate of the American decline is surely exaggerated, and the reaction...
...question are the standard G.O.P. nostrums of curbing Government spending and encouraging the Federal Reserve to follow a tight-money policy. Says Republican National Committee Chairman William Brock: "Carter is consciously using human beings as cannon fodder in his war against inflation. We're going to take his hide off on that...