Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...competitive urge among these multiple sources of information leads to excesses, but it also contributes to a self-correcting process. When one news outlet reports a story badly, rival organizations can score a coup as well as honor their craft by setting the record straight. Indeed, most irate critics of bias in the press cite stories from other parts of the press to prove their case. For readers of almost any ideological stripe, the perceived or actual bias of some publication can be offset by the availability of others. In soliciting subscriptions from new readers, the conservative weekly Human Events...
...your discussion of what constitutes aggression among nations [Nov. 14], you fail to distinguish between indirect aggression and revolution. Practically all revolutions have some sort of foreign support. I can hear George III screaming about a coup d'état in the American colonies where insurgents were acting as surrogates for the French...
There's no prediction of an immediate coup out of Briggs Cage, however, only guarded optimism. "I think there's a lot of talk right now," McLaughlin says. "But I think it has to be backed up with some actions. Let's see Penn and Princeton finish third or fourth. It's one thing to say it but it's another thing...
...settled at home-and on the basis of federation. Neither side has been willing to compromise. Hostilities between the two communities go back for generations; outright separation has been in effect since 1974 when right-wing Greek Cypriots favoring enosis (union) with Greece took power in Nicosia in a coup, thus triggering the Turkish invasion. Since then, the Turkish-dominated part of the island has managed to survive only with economic help from Ankara, which currently provides half the annual budget of $120 million along with millions more in development funds...
...worry. What may, at first, be a commercial inconvenience will surely, in the end, turn into an artistic coup. Terms of Endearment does work off the conventions that rule more ordinary movies, but only to enrich its own singular voice. Its quirky rhythms and veering emotional tones are very much its own, and they owe less to movie tradition than they do to a sense of how the law of unintended consequences pushes us ceaselessly through the years, permitting no pause for perspective. Terms comes to at least glancing terms with almost every problem a person is likely to encounter...