Word: label
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with the constant reiteration of false allegations-that I am for sale, or for rent, that I lacked compassion, that I did not care about the torture of human beings in certain countries friendly to the U.S. My position has been clear on all of this. A label, once applied, because of the herd instinct in Washington, sticks. The record never caught up. I was done in by my two chief virtues-candor and courage." He denied that either the White House or the State Department nudged him out, and said that both Reagan and Secretary of State Alexander Haig...
...attach any label you want. I think it is designed to enhance the educational process and to chance the contributions wich graduates of the institution will make. I do not apologize for it. I defend it. We can attack anything by attaching labels. But I don't think labels really get at the subtler process of how we admit students in ways that will enhance our contribution and the educational experience those students undergo. --Meet the Press, November...
...still felt the grown-ups were running the world and things were they way they were for a reason," says Nancy P. Levin. She and others will dispute the "silent generation" label, but not with much enthusiasm. "We were not morally dead; there just seemed to be fewer ways for us to have our voice heard," she adds...
...muscle, doctors can tell if tissue has died as a result of a heart attack and whether blood is flowing freely through the coronary arteries. The test is usually performed first while the patient is exercising on a treadmill or bicycle and then while resting. Similarly, physicians can radioactively label components of the blood, like red cells, to see how efficiently the organ is pumping...
...also received, and he was brought into the dialogue. These talks laid the basis for what may eventually be a Dole-Rostenkowski tax bill, which, noted one aide, would have the advantage of allowing everyone to take credit for "a statesman-like compromise" while removing the partisan Kemp-Roth label...