Word: defeatism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Cliff Stoll, an astrophysicist currently working at Harvard, said in a Jefferson Hall lecture last night on computer security that while the virus was not programmed to be destructive, it was intentionally set up to be extremely difficult to defeat...
Indeed, such caution may not be unreasonable--some pundits have attributed Walter Mondale's 1984 landslide defeat to his expressed intention to raise taxes...
This is not to say that there are no real problems on the horizon. Two areas that remain hot and troubled for the U.S. are the Middle East and Central America. But even in the Middle East, Iran's defeat and the subsequent isolation of Syria have checked at least temporarily the most radical and destabilizing players in that area. In Central America the Soviets have indeed established a strategic toehold, but this is unlikely to spell immediate danger for the region because of Nicaragua's economic chaos and social unrest. In fact, for the first time in a generation...
...were joined by assistant managing editor Karsten Prager, who also had interviewed Arafat repeatedly while serving as TIME's Middle East bureau chief in the mid-1970s. "Arafat hasn't changed much," says Prager, "despite some bitter years since then. He has an amazing ability to bounce back from defeat and make himself essential to the Palestinian cause." Still eager to talk, Arafat later bumped an aide and a bodyguard from the return flight to Baghdad -- again with the Turkish air force escorting -- to make room for Prager, Gart and photographer Thomas Hartwell. For Gart, the extended interview provided...
...loyalty, a quality that Bush prizes, perhaps in the extreme. But at this dour moment in the campaign when true leadership demands discipline, the Dukakis camp has become riven with faction and plagued with press leaks from advisers seeking to salvage their own reputations from the debris of seeming defeat...