Word: defeatism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...thing, Japan's has never been a culture that made it easy to admit defeat. This year, in despair over malfeasance investigations and bankruptcies, more than a dozen prominent bureaucrats and businessmen have committed suicide. More important, the changes being discussed go far beyond dropping lifetime employment and closing the doors on a bunch of banks. Critics are calling for a complete overhaul of the much celebrated education system and drastic new environmental regulations, not to mention a reassessment of how Japan will deal with its biggest future headache: the world's most rapidly aging society...
...breakdown of fatty deposits in the body. So, it doesn't take much of a leap to suggest that eating too many of the wrong kinds of carbohydrates leads to too much insulin, which in turn promotes the accumulation of fat, thereby setting up the body for continuous defeat in the battle of the bulge. Or at least that's the theory that has launched a dozen diet books...
Iran's World Cup soccer defeat of the U.S. may have helped the campaign by that country's moderate president, Mohammed Khatami, for liberalization and reconciliation with Washington. TIME Middle East bureau chief Scott MacLeod, in Tehran for the game, predicted that an Iran victory would create discomfort for Khatami's conservative foes by prompting massive demonstrations and by showing the "Great Satan" as fair players and gracious losers. While the country's conservative spiritual leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, sought to spin it as a "bitter defeat" for the "arrogant opponent," the fact that it was celebrated on the streets...
...Tobacco Wars are far from over. Following the defeat of a critical anti-tobacco bill last week, President Clinton directed the Department of Health and Human Services to begin documenting which brands of cigarettes kids smoke. "It's a clever move," says TIME White House correspondent Jay Branegan. "This helps Clinton back up his claim that he's really interested only in keeping kids from smoking and not in punishing the tobacco companies...
Starting in November 1994, two weeks after his bitter defeat, he attended classes under the Roman Catholic Church's Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults. He went once a week for five months to Columba's church, the Epiphany Catholic Church in Miami, and was received into the faith at Easter 1995. "I had just got my butt whupped in the election, and these were real people, and it was so much fun to talk about normal things and to be treated as just a normal, ordinary person." He also invested time in restoring his relationships. "For a two-year...