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...ploy. Stockman plays bad cop with his drastic proposals. Good Cop Reagan then restores some of the cuts, seeming humane even as he effects sizable savings. By leaking word of some of Stockman's planned cuts, and then winning a few appeals, Cabinet chiefs have been able to regain some credibility with their constituencies...
...workers in the morning: "May your day be scented with jasmine." Sometimes the exaggerations that are inherent in Arabic can be dangerous. Saudi Arabia's late King Saud once told a visiting group of Palestinian journalists that "the Arabs must be ready to sacrifice a million lives to regain the sacred soil of Palestine." It was rhetoric, a flourish; Arabs hearing it would no more take it literally than would an American football crowd hearing "Rip 'em Up, tear 'em up." But the words made headlines all over the world as a statement of bloody Saudi intent...
...getting the fullest out of the quote. Harvard experience."--insert Boyum. and you have largely the same group that a year ago dropped only one dual match (Princeton) and captured the intercollegiate six-man championship. Undeniably, the squad is talented and a potential favorite to unseat Princeton and regain the nine-man title it gave up last year...
They must be told that freedom's blessing demands a price. They must be told that no matter how large that price might be, it is nothing compared to the price that would have to be paid to regain those blessings should they ever be lost." Indeed, although the U.S. and Europe are interdependent, Europe needs the U.S. militarily more than the U.S. needs Europe. Fortress America is an unattractive thought, but at least thinkable. Fortress Europe is unthinkable...
...Those statements do more to galvanize public concern than anything we do in an organized way," said U.C.S. Coordinator David Brunell, who helped plan the teach-ins. Hart says that the U.S. must regain the peace initiative by showing a greater willingness to negotiate arms agreements with the Soviets. As he said at Cornell: "The U.S. must go back to the bargaining table and offer a challenge to the Soviets to reduce nuclear weapons. If not, we entrust our survival to leaders who believe that a limited nuclear war can be fought and won, and who might act on that...