Word: startingly
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...return to gunboat diplomacy and covert operations--in President Carter's Iranian rescue mission and Congress's freeing the Central Intelligence Agency to roam foreign nations at will--certainly signals the start of that flinging. But Americans who feel that their government has a right to do what it wants in the world as a result of a few years of a nominally moral foreign policy are turning their backs on every lesson in international relations the world has given the U.S. since World...
...search of the votes they need to secure registration. But what surprises Mills more than the undeniably political nature of the Carter proposal is what he calls the plan's basic unworkability. "Frankly," he says, "I just don't think this thing has been well thought out from start to finish...
...later, the president's call for registration seems to have posed many more dilemmas than it may solve. If congress this week approves the president's plan to begin registering 19- and 20-year-old men for the draft, the protests which follow that action may only be the start of the government's problems...
Harvard proved less easy to mold than she hoped, but she made a self-conscious effort to thrust herself into University life. She and other members of the Radcliffe-Harvard Dance Co. "decided to start over" and formed a new company with new bylaws. She applied for her special concentration. She says both her senior tutor and the head of the special concentrations office laughed at her, but somehow her petition was granted and she officially began a concentration in choreographic theory...
Back in WASP society once again, she changed her major to economics, and the next summer landed a job at Solomon Brothers, a Wall Street investment firm. On and off crutches most of junior year, she was able by the summer to start taking dance lessons at night after work. That summer she rushed to work in the morning in her pumps with a Wall Street Journal tucked under her arm. After work she would try to "de-bank" herself, changing into sandals and carrying her dance magazines as she rushed off to class...