Word: conquered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...William Hurt in Broadcast News) and Bud Fox (Charlie Sheen in Wall Street) are the ring bearers, the genetically streamlined children, of the new amorality. Bud, in his mid-20s, is learning how to wheel and wheedle; Tom, in his mid-30s, already knows how to ingratiate and conquer. Bud does it with long hours and pit-bull doggedness, Tom with his boyish, passive charisma. Both men might tell you that ideals are as passe as peace marches and that the happening disease, the one everyone wants to catch, is designer greed. So who cares that Bud is a bookie...
...American companies cannot hope to conquer the trade deficit as long as its twin, the budget deficit, remains so huge. The stimulus of Washington's deficit spending, especially on a steadily expanding economy, makes the U.S. far too hungry for imported merchandise. This connection between the twin deficits has been almost universally recognized for years, and yet the Administration and Congress are still spending well beyond the country's means. That is the perilous formula that came to grief last week...
...often argued that the indiference shown by voters here is an inevitable result of the democracy's aging. And it is true that Italy, Spain, Greece, Portugal are young democracies where citizens still remember what it means to conquer tyranny. Perhaps in such countries there is unjustified idealism about the power of the people. But is it really naive that Italian schools provide for courses on civic education and explicitly address the importance of political participation...
...PARALYSIS of joy is an insurmountable obstacle. Even if I get past an initial aversion to brilliant and pretentious books--I have "antronithogipodhaphobia," the fear of long words that don't make any sense--and even if I conquer the distraction of having to go to Harvard Square every half-hour to see if I'm hungry enough to eat, there is still the "The Happiness Principle" to finish...
...before the couple were divorced in 1984, is seeking damages of more than $2.5 million. The manager of a record company in Manhattan, she says she had few reservations about filing a suit charging Robert with giving her herpes. "There's a stigma," she says, "but I have to conquer those feelings because I know I have to do this...