Word: backwards
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...outbursts are fueled by economic woes and Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev' s promise of a reformed model of Communism. -- Rumania marches backward toward poverty and ever greater tyranny. -- Horror comes to the green hills of Burundi. -- What should Britain do to curb the I. R. A.? -- South Africa cracks down on draft resisters...
Rumania's backward march toward poverty and even tighter dictatorship contrasts sharply with Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev's campaign for glasnost and perestroika. Ceausescu openly derides Moscow's notions of reform while terrorizing his countrymen with the pervasive Securitate, perhaps the bloc's most feared secret police. Rumania has also provoked an unprecedentedly bitter dispute within the normally cohesive Warsaw Pact, prompting charges from the Hungarian leadership that the Ceausescu regime is systematically discriminating against ethnic Hungarians living inside its borders...
...certainly pull their advertising. If anything, says Barry Diller, Fox's chief executive, the fledgling network will operate at a slight disadvantage. "A magazine has to retain its credibility, or it's lost," he maintains. "The natural instinct of the people operating TV Guide will be to bend over backward to ensure that there's no appearance of favoritism...
Trains are still the best conveyance for transporting a mood. Last week's destination was either the past or the future -- Chicago anyway, Wrigley Field. After two or three switchyards, a traveler gets turned around, and the sensation is of highballing one way and the other, backward and forward, in time...
...Luther King and civil rights, but it's in an abstract context." If that is the situation, it is not surprising that stereotypes abound -- and not just about blacks: while whites generally are considered by Japanese to be advanced and "civilized," fellow Asians and others are sometimes seen as backward, even inferior...