Word: cheerful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Though the scandal has shaken public confidence in its banks, some of Yugoslavia's 23 million citizens have found reason to cheer. They say that the country's cumbersome rotating leadership, which has ruled since the death of Dictator Josip Broz Tito in 1980, may now have the opportunity to push through needed reforms. On the reformers' list are such measures as liquidation of money-losing state companies, closer supervision of regional banks by central authorities, and curbs on the ability of regional governments to veto national legislation. Moreover, the Yugoslav press played an unusually aggressive role in uncovering...
...Bronx cheer arose from the Columbia crowd as it did direct its collective attention to the scoreboard--and was once again reminded of the sizeable deficit the Lions (once again) faced...
Coming within sight of the actual Bronx--and in the most modern stadium in the Ivy League, but one which has never seen a home victory--the cheer seemed all too appropriate...
...good men against corporate Evil, then stereotypes their sanctity. Joe may be attracted to Elma, but the pacifist in him would never show lust: he doesn't do widows. And by the time the noble blacks start harmonizing with the noble Italians, you may be ready to cheer for the villains...
...skirmishes, while hawkers selling peanuts and cigarettes worked the crowd. Late in the afternoon, armored personnel carriers began advancing down the boulevard toward the camp, firing shells at the rebel-held buildings and sending the civilians scurrying for + cover. The crowd was rooting for the government forces, and a cheer went up when the troop carriers moved cautiously through Camp Aguinaldo's front gate. The cheering stopped when an errant shell exploded in the middle of a small crowd. The limp bodies of two civilians were hastily dragged away...