Word: anathemas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...peculiarities and national quirks, and often turn away from the grandaddy Soviet Union. Yugoslavia is a good example of this, and China, too. North Korea has added a fascinating variation: apparently strongman Kim's eldest son is the heir apparent to the head spot. This quasimonarchic arrangement is certainly anathema to main-line Marxism...
Arafat has long been an anathema to those who view his terrorist tactics and steadfast refusal to accept Israel's existence as the obstacle to a negotiated settlement in the Middle East. Because of his intransigence, Arafat cannot expect (nor does be deserve) any country to come to his aid as his forces crumble in Tripoli...
...past if he becomes self-sufficient, but this means ignoring the plans of others. Tremblay doesn't quite follow through to the plot's implication--that for Serge freedom is incompatible with his need to communicate with and be loved by Nicole and Gabriel. Prolonged silence, the actor's anathema, seems the only escape from Tremblay's determinism. If his characters can't escape their child-hoods and have no outside arbiters to appeal to why should they talk about it at all? Why even say "Bonjour...
...school of economic thought. Regan strongly opposes increasing taxes in order to bring down the deficit. While that view has few adherents in the business or academic world, it has many advocates in the White House. The notion of a tax increase before next year's election is anathema to Reagan's political advisers...
Sculley, though, is trying to make the Lisa more attractive to business buyers. Next year it will be able to run programs designed for the IBM PC. Such a move would have been anathema a year ago and is tacit admission that Apple is learning to live in an IBM-dominated world...