Word: bannered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...arrangement is as follows: U.S. policymakers justify acts of aggression under the banner of what they call "U.S. interests," which take precedence over concepts such as international law, conventional morality, democracy and so on. Most important among these interests is that American banks and businesses be allowed to enjoy the "favorable economic climate" of U.S.-backed dictatorships, which keep wages and taxes low while providing cheap natural resources. Meanwhile the U.S. must constantly take care lest revolutionaries--fed up with the poverty, illiteracy and political terrorism under U.S.-sponsored military governments--lure these countries out of the Free World...
...claims 3 million followers. Furthermore, the two Nashville businessmen admittedly had little wealth, but refused to discuss the financing of their purchase of U.P.I. Insisted Ruhe at the time: "No one is behind us." As an unintended admission of unpopularity, that statement was uncomfortably true: their home-town Nashville Banner immediately dropped U.P.I, because of the furor...
These Americans are in their 30s today, but back then they were the Now Generation. Right Now: give me peace, give me justice, gimme good lovin'. For them, in the voluptuous bloom of youth, the '60s was a banner you could carry aloft or wrap yourself inside. A verdant anarchy of politics, sex, drugs and style carpeted the landscape. And each impulse was scored to the rollick of the new music: folk, rock, pop, R & B. The armies of the night marched to Washington, but they boogied to Liverpool and Motown...
...ballyhoo the two-seater sports car they will introduce this month, Pontiac executives summoned the press to a sneak preview in a cavernous auto plant. At the climax of the meeting, officials did not show off the car. Instead, they unfurled a banner displaying the result of their hard work. FIERO, it said, revealing the auto's name, which is Italian for "proud." It was no small disclosure. Detroit carmakers spend millions of dollars each year dreaming up prospective auto names, and they risk much more when they finally choose...
...displaying increasingly overt interest in finding a diplomatic solution to the Central American dilemma. Last week, after elaborate planning, U.S. Special Envoy Richard Stone met secretly with Ruben Zamora, 40, a leader of the Democratic Revolutionary Front, which represents the five guerrilla organizations that are fighting under a joint banner in El Salvador. In the past, the U.S. had refused to deal directly with the Salvadoran guerrillas, arguing that to do so would undermine the legitimacy of the U.S.-supported government in El Salvador...