Word: defeatism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...soldiers, laden with equipment, lined up before military transport planes to fly home. Meanwhile, the Kremlin's Foreign Minister, Eduard Shevardnadze, and his deputy, Yuli Vorontsov, met separately with the Afghan regime and the leaders of the mujahedin to discuss what amounted to the terms of the U.S.S.R.'s defeat...
Barbara will probably never sit in on Cabinet meetings a la Rosalynn Carter or get people fired, as Nancy did. But a spousal "Dear, I wouldn't do that if I were you," delivered with a raised eyebrow, can often defeat a stack of position papers. During Bush's postelection vacation, he was asked whether he had received any advice about his new job. He smiled broadly and pointed to his wife, standing nearby in tennis shoes and sweats. Barbara raised her eyebrows and said, "Just kidding." Replied Bush...
...North on the broad charge of conspiracy was probably doomed from the start. For months the special prosecutor navigated between the fears of the intelligence community that North would expose secrets and Gesell's insistence that North be given great latitude in his use of evidence. Walsh's defeat became inevitable last month when Gesell laid down rules for handling the secret data contained in the 300 classified documents the special prosecutor had planned to use. The judge would permit excision of the covert sources and methods by which the data were obtained. However, the information itself...
...much for the domino theory. Despite China's power to stalemate the Korean War, and the U.S. defeat in Viet Nam, capitalism has flourished in Asia -- a painful irony when one considers the price paid by successive American governments to contain the Commies...
Georgia Tech went on to defeat Maine in the championship game...