Word: besting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...best passages in the book recounts the campaign of 1968, a year of tragedy and stress. Nixon capitalized on the turmoil, playing to Main Street's abhorrence of disorder. Yet he also threaded his way between the extremism of George Wallace and the ambivalence of Hubert Humphrey. Nixon's caution almost enabled Humphrey to recoup in the final days, but the Republican knew his constituency well enough to squeeze out a puny plurality. Over the next four years, he built that slight advantage into a mighty force despite the agony of Viet Nam. Ambrose leaves his protagonist in inexplicable melancholy...
When it comes to productive tools, we should buy the best, regardless of origin, because it's in our long-term self-interest to do so. The best tools | make for the most competitive products. But when it comes to trinkets, we should think twice. Of course, with a lot of today's trinkets -- VCRs and camcorders, to name just two -- there's no way to buy American. The only choice is whether to buy at all, or whether, perhaps, to invest that money instead...
...salesmen whose bonuses depend on how many questionable securities they can unload. Retribution is the rarest commodity on Wall Street, but in Liar's Poker it makes several appearances. In 1986 the financial action begins to leave Salomon Brothers for other concerns -- and so do many of the best employees. The house that has thrived on hostile takeovers itself becomes a target. Then comes the Crash of '87, when "investors froze like deer in headlights" and hardened professionals were "helpless as they watched their beloved market...
...Lidove Noviny. More than 100 journalists, most of them government employees, have since signed a petition calling for the release of the pair and for the immediate legalization of the newspaper. Now the government is hounding playwright Vaclav Havel, spokesman for the Charter 77 movement and the country's best-known dissident. Police called Havel in for questioning last Thursday, then allowed him to go to a city hospital when he complained of being ill. Their real purpose was to prevent him from taking part in unofficial celebrations Saturday to mark the 71st anniversary of the founding of the Czechoslovak...
...with the Germanys' desire to reunite. But the thought of 78 million Germans under one flag next door is enough to give even the most zealous reformer pause. "We already detect a growth of German assertiveness," warns a leading Polish economist. Says Bromke: "The Warsaw Pact is perhaps the best guarantee of Poland's territorial integrity...