Word: appealling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fact, he sees it as a "sad time," when ideological struggles that called for "daring, courage, imagination" will be replaced by the "endless solving of technical problems." He worries about the cultural banality that pervades liberal societies obsessed with consumerism, and notes that nationalism and religious fundamentalism continue to appeal to many Third World peoples. While it is impossible to rule out the emergence of new ideologies, or indeed of entirely new political systems, Fukuyama argues that for the foreseeable future it will become ever more widely perceived that liberal democracy is the most equitable form of government that...
...leader in favor of Mieczyslaw Rakowski. The President asked Czeslaw Kiszczak, who has been Interior Minister since 1981, to form a new government. By Aug. 7, Kiszczak had still been unable to do so, and Walesa once again called for a Solidarity- led government. This time he pitched his appeal directly to the United Peasants and the Democrats...
...Walesa's appeal won the day. The Deputies approved a resolution calling for a Solidarity-led government under Walesa's leadership. The new alliance, with a total of 264 seats in the Sejm, would thus have a majority over the Communists' 173. The next day Walesa, Malinowski and Democratic Party leader Jerzy Jozwiak called at Warsaw's Belvedere Palace, now the presidential residence. After Kiszczak presented his resignation to Jaruzelski, the three party leaders talked with the President for two hours...
...took a personal appeal from Commander in Chief Ronald Reagan to get Powell to take the NSC job. Powell requested and received permission to retain his Army commission so he could stay on the career track he hoped would lead to the Joint Chiefs of Staff. As Reagan's term drew to its close, Powell, by then head of the NSC, anxiously scotched rumors that Bush would ask him to stay on. He gratefully accepted the U.S. Forces Command in Fort McPherson...
...civil rights organizations assailed Lucas for his lack of qualifications. The former FBI agent and Republican candidate for Governor of Michigan conceded that he "was new to the law." A practicing attorney for only two years, he had never tried a case, written a brief or argued an appeal. Most damaging, Lucas displayed a woeful ignorance of basic civil rights issues. Asked about the distinction between de facto (actual) and de jure (legal) segregation, Lucas drew a blank. "If it had been a white man who had been nominated who had the same background," said Alabama Democrat Howell Heflin...