Word: professed
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...newspapers did not pick up the story for weeks. Moreover, supposedly competing journals band together in a peculiarly Japanese institution, the "press clubs." At major sources of news (government ministries, political party headquarters, the 47 police prefectures), correspondents from daily newspapers control the flow of information. Though most politicians profess to hate the press, they comply with club rules. Generally, only a member may ask questions at press conferences; in some cases, only members may attend. Membership is denied to magazine reporters and foreigners...
Lawyers use drugs, breaking the laws they profess to revere. Police officers use drugs, breaking the laws they swear to protect. Politicians, doctors, teachers and parents are also users and hence lawbreakers. To whom, then, can our youth look for moral leadership...
Despite their training, the counselors do not profess that they are professionals, and Ellen L. Shapiro, a peer counselor, emphasized her volunteer position. "I'm not an expert, I'm just a little less confused and more informed than most people," she said...
...second approach offers what both sides profess to want: a coalition including Democratic as well as Republican leaders. Says Republican Senator Robert Packwood of Oregon: "To the extent the President wants to get part of his program, he has to give. Now that he has a House that's adverse, there have to be negotiations." Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker feels compromise will be especially important on the defense budget. Says he: "There certainly will be a major effort to trim defense spending, and it will be cut more than the Administration wants...
...Rowny-Karpov talks is quite another. Both literally and figuratively, Reagan has changed the name of the game. He has rechristened the negotiations START, for Strategic Arms Reduction Talks, as a somewhat artificial way to distinguish his Administration's goals from those of its predecessor. The Soviets profess to share the desire for reductions; they have even added the word to the Russian designation of the talks ("Our first concession," says Zamyatin with a wry smile). But they object strenuously to the sorts of reductions that the U.S. wants...