Word: bombed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Starting in '75, I got re-interested in the Bomb, which had been my original issue. I became re-engaged when India set off their bomb for nuclear testing in '74 or '75. I became interested in why the Cold War was returning. I began looking into how the media treat the bomb and how they restrict what is possible...
...have come back to the Bomb and fused to it my more recent interest in the media, taking it one step farther. I think the Reagan counterreformation is receding. A lot of what we did in the '60s was stupid, tactically unbalanced, and I didn't think that should be repeated...
...hardly the first time that American good intentions had led to chaos. In The Quiet American, Graham Greene's 1955 fictionalized but accurate portrayal of early U.S. adventurism in Viet Nam, an American bomb- assassination plot aimed at corrupt South Vietnamese officers goes awry, killing innocent shoppers and children in a Saigon square. Amid the carnage, a confrontation ensues between Alden Pyle, the well-meaning but naive protagonist, and the novel's narrator, a British journalist...
...Panama, as in Viet Nam, the Law of Unintended Consequences hangs over U.S. policy this week like a pall of smoke after the explosion of a misplaced bomb...
...have gone awry in Patrick's case, it would have preferred a resolution at the state level rather than through federal antitrust laws. Antitrust damages are especially painful because they come out of a doctor's own pocket, notes A.M.A. General Counsel Kirk Johnson. "Antitrust is the atom bomb of lawsuits...