Word: anathemas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Fervor--the very word is anathema to mainstream politicians. But, yes, Americans dig it. Pat Robertson knows that because his job is to get the holy to roll in the aisles. Tommy Walker and David Wolper know that, and all they did was create a gigantic celebration honoring an iron lady...
...Eighth District, any politico will tell you that the race is over on September 16, the day of the Democratic primary election. The polls have stopped even mentioning the two remaining Republican candidates. It is a one-party election, anathema to self-righteous critics of Third World governments...
Over the past several months, at least three Harvard scholars have said they have worked for the CIA doing restricted research. Anathema to widely accepted scholarly codes, the restrictions prohibited disclosure of the CIA's sponsorship and forbade publication without agency review. The professors' actions have raised concerns that Harvard's own rules are not sufficient to discourage this kind of activity...
...news: Moscow's plan offers a significant reduction in the weapons that Washington considers most threatening, warheads deployed atop land-based strategic missiles. There was some bad news too: the Soviet method of counting weapons so distorts strategic realities that it is simply unacceptable to the U.S. Equally an anathema to the Reagan Administration is the continued Soviet insistence that the U.S. abandon its Strategic Defense Initiative, commonly known as Star Wars...
...within the U.S. seeking to damage the new trend in relations. The Kremlin ridiculed the Warren Commission's conclusion that Oswald had acted on his own. There was widespread speculation among Soviet diplomats that Lyndon Johnson, along with the CIA and the Mafia, had masterminded the plot. Johnson was anathema to Khrushchev. Because he was a Southerner, Moscow considered him a racist (the stereotype of any American politician from below the Mason-Dixon line), an anti-Soviet, and anti-Communist to boot. Further, since Johnson was from Texas, a center of the reactionary forces in the U.S., according...