Word: boycott
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...much for the Moral Majority, which in the mid-1980s helped persuade a few retailers, including 7-Eleven stores, to stop selling Playboy and other skin mags. In its Liberty Report newspaper, the Moral Majority urges readers to write to Sassy's advertisers and demand that the firms boycott the magazine...
...weeks after Claudia Losch of West Germany won a 1984 Olympic gold medal with a shot put of 67 ft. 2 1/4 in., Natalia Lisovskaya took that event at the Soviet bloc's boycott-inspired Friendship Games with a throw almost 5 ft. longer. Barred by politics in 1984 from a chance at world sport's most enduring honor, Lisovskaya began training at Moscow's Brothers Znamensky Sports School for Seoul...
...when Greg Louganis was favored to become the first man in more than 50 years to win two gold medals in diving at the same Olympics, he instead sat home with the U.S. boycott team and watched the victories go to a Soviet and an East German whom Louganis had outscored at Montreal four years before. Louganis achieved his double at Los Angeles in 1984 and hinted at retirement. But next week he too will be competing in Seoul, perhaps in part because he is one of just a handful of U.S. and Soviet athletes with a personal memory...
...voted heavily for Reagan in 1980 and 1984. Says Bill Lacy, head of Bush's California campaign: "The people in the Central Valley can be appealed to like Southern conservatives, on crime, the death penalty, prison furloughs, gun control." Bush will also stress Dukakis' endorsement of a 1985 grape boycott called by United Farm Workers Leader Cesar Chavez, a stand popular with Latino farmhands, who mostly do not vote, but anathema to farm owners and their suppliers...
...role in the reunification drive with proposals aimed at a thaw in relations with Pyongyang, but the government of Kim Il Sung, reluctant to appear upstaged, responded coolly. Low-level talks since then in the peace village of Panmunjom have stalled. Last week Pyongyang formally announced that it would boycott the Olympics...