Word: deadweight
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Later, in an attempt to divest Labor of another electoral deadweight -- the party's commitment to unilateral nuclear disarmament -- he suggested that Britain might retain nuclear weapons while a Labor government took part in arms talks. But the conferees, led by Ron Todd, head of the Transport and General Workers' Union, instead endorsed unilateralism and called for the removal of all nuclear weapons and bases from Britain. Todd had earlier responded to Kinnock's keynote address with anger. His temper rising as he spoke, the union leader derided Kinnock's supporters as "all sharp suits, cordless telephones, glossy pink roses...
...Deadweight Loss, a four-member student band which writes most of its own music, will kick off the series of Friday night performances in the Cabot Junior Common Room. Organizers say they hope the concert will enliven the social life at the Quad and give student bands more exposure...
...cater to the child audience and the older crowd, but they sacrificed basic, good B-moviemaking in the process. Rustler's Rhapsody tries to sell itself so hard that it sells itself short. The wild west madcap parody is a building block which just cannot support such a deadweight movie. Without more, Rustler's Rhapsody becomes about as funny as a herd of cattle in Spurr, Texas...
...response to the realization that most of the world now sees the Soviets for what they are. Their government denies freedoms to its people and invades its neighbors. If the West can bide its time and avoid a nuclear confrontation, the Soviet government will eventually collapse from its own deadweight...
...change primary run-off rules in the South that have barred Black candidacies; revising procedures would send racist Southern whites charging into the arms of the Republican Party, we're told. So what? That might be a blessing in disguise for the Democrats, who, shorn of their deadweight right wing, might be free to evolve into a truly progressive group. Yes, they might lose a few elections, but they'd stand a far better chance in the longer term of creating a new majority and affecting the country's destiny for the better...