Word: decays
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Citizen initiatives can be an example of democracy at work. But in this case they are symptomatic of governmental decay at all levels. Once a great engine of social and economic improvement, the Federal Government began to lose its bearings in the '60s and '70s in the midst of wars, both cold and hot, domestic upheavals and a worldwide economic revolution. As the nation's economic base began to contract, some basic elements of the American Dream -- homeownership, a college education -- began slowly to recede. The Government responded fitfully to these developments and eventually took on the form...
...only answer that can realistically be expected from Congress this year addressing the emergency needs of the jobless and homeless...caught in the pattern of decay of devastated inner cities," Haar testified...
...become a self-contained contradiction. He has evolved into an historian of the past and a critic of the present, clutching to the past tighter than Bo grips a bat. For the baseball fan, the past is perfect, and the present and future serve only as horrific reminders of decay...
...discovery of the Z 0 and two related particles, W+ and W-, in 1982 and 1983 won a Nobel for CERN scientists Rubbia and Simon van der Meer. The three particles carry the weak nuclear force, one of the four fundamental forces of nature, which is responsible for radioactive decay...
...Marxism as "inherently unstable" and doomed. But in the policies that went with this confident rhetoric, he, like his predecessors, concentrated on the task of matching Communism's strength and deterring its expansion, not on the more subtle and relevant dilemma of coping with the consequences of its weakness, decay and retrenchment...