Word: banishment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...year ago, during the first presidential candidates' debate, Bush had said, "I want to be the one to banish chemical and biological weapons from the face of the earth." The United States has in the past accused the Soviets of developing biological weapons...
...classical Greece the elected magistrates of Athens, called Archons, held secret ballots to banish leaders when they were accused of serious transgressions. Last week a similar process began in the Greek parliament after two government commissions recommended that criminal charges be brought against former Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou. The panels accused Papandreou of complicity in the Bank of Crete scandal and of ordering illegal wiretaps. Parliament is expected to refer the charges to a special criminal court...
...best kind of bright early summer's day spoiled by the worst kind of dark imaginings: Is it possible that in this season, otherwise so full of innocent promise, Hollywood executives banish all thought of us as audience -- discerning, judicious, culturally literate? Does the solstice induce in them some Kafkaesque mental process by which we are converted, for purposes of contemptuous calculation, into some lower life-form? Do moviegoers suddenly seem to them to be, say, a vast colony of ants mindlessly munching through forests of Roman numerals, unconcerned about the taste, good or bad, of anything placed...
ENVIRONMENT: An immodest proposal to banish smog...
...last days of a steamy summer, as pity runs thin, a backlash against beggars is smoldering across the country. Its chief spokesman is New York Mayor Ed Koch, who is urging people to help banish the panhandlers by refusing to give them anything. Koch avers that "many people who panhandle just don't want to work for a living." They are, he insists, addicts, alcoholics and con artists, and those who give them money are easy marks. Sympathetic people would do better to give to established charities, the mayor advises, to ensure that the money be used to help people...