Word: bugaboos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...times greater (against total toy sales of about $5.5 billion). The great beep forward came when Milton Bradley noticed that adults were buying its innovative Simon -for themselves, and not just in the weeks before Christmas. The highly seasonal nature of toy buying has always been an industry bugaboo; after Christmas, retailers can get stuck with toys that won't sell...
Unemployment is a special bugaboo for the Israeli government. An Israeli out of work might leave the country-depriving it of a soldier-or, perhaps worse, might vote against the party in power. As Finance Minister Yehoshua Rabinowitz says, "While other countries fight inflation with planned unemployment, we have steered clear of that course because we know that large-scale unemployment here would be social dynamite...
...will defeat Russia in their atomic contest, resort to whatever slogans desperation suggests to try to swing American public opinion behind the Russian cause. I describe this process step by step, as the media's panjandrums reluctantly but inexorably leave sanity behind and begin hysterically to raise the bugaboo of "the yellow peril...
...ludicrous that the President and his Administration still hold dear the bugaboo of Communism to perpetuate our ridiculous role of the world's policemen! I refuse to allow my sympathy to be aroused by the sadly gory pictures in TIME, but remember instead the pictures of our American servicemen who lost their lives in the war we never should have fought in Viet...
...education. In 1973, the State Supreme Court declared that heavy reliance on local property taxes created wide disparities in the quality of education. But the state senate blocked a $300 million plan submitted by Governor Brendan Byrne to rectify the imbalance because it depended on enactment of that old bugaboo, a state income...