Word: knowingly
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Merced. When a farmer complained about immigrants' not wanting to work, Carter cracked, without further explanation, "There are loafers even in my family." He seemed to raise hope about the hostages in Iran by mentioning still another "avenue to Iranian leaders." But then he admitted, "I do not know what else we can do without endangering the lives of the hostages...
...even more urgently this year. The problem is 'not that blacks will desert to Carter's rivals. Reagan's conservative positions turn them off, and John Anderson remains an unknown, although he displayed engaging candor when he told the N.A.A.C.P. convention: "I cannot pretend to know what it is day in and day out to be black in America." The threat to Carter is that blacks may be so disappointed with his performance that they may not vote in large enough numbers to help him take key states that he captured...
...know any family where the children's life-styles are the same as the parents'," she says. "I mean, generations are different, and times change." Patti remains totally uninterested in politics. When asked which party she has registered in, she pauses, gives a nervous laugh, glances at the nearby Reagan aide. "Uh-independent," she says. "That means I can vote either way, right...
After Israel, the main target of Palestinian resentment is the U.S., which evokes savage condemnations that stray close to open antiSemitism. Says one bitter intellectual in Amman: "You know why I hate the American Government? Because it is not an American government, it is a Zionist government." Frustrated Palestinians often warn of the likelihood of a serious Arab use of the "oil weapon" by mid-1981. Adnan Abu Odah, a Jordan-based director of the World Affairs Council explains, "This is the question: How to make America's awareness of its liabilities outweigh its commitment to Israel...
...about science and the chasm between arts and technology. The speech drew worldwide attention, including a scathing ad hominem attack by Cambridge Don F.R. Leavis. Snow's argument no longer seems controversial because it has been so generally accepted: it is important for humanists and everyone else to know what scientists are doing...