Word: defeatist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other extreme, the Harvard study is gloomy to the point of being defeatist about fossil fuels. Energy Future offers no hope that much new oil can be found in drilled-out America. The authors largely write off as impractical the attempts to recover left-behind oil in old wells. Natural gas, in their view, also has a dim future because proven reserves have been steadily shrinking. Even before Three Mile Island, notes the book, nuclear power was declining. Finally, mining, transportation and pollution problems rule out big increases in coal production...
...appointments have been sound from the liberal perspective. The names of Joseph Califano at HEW, Michael Pertschuk at FTC, and Andrew Young at the U.N. immediately come to mind. But it is policy, not appointments, which shapes the course of nations. The Democratic Party has not traditionally accepted a defeatist philosophy of government, a philosophy that Carter seems to be adopting. The year 1980, therefore, may turn out to be the year for a fight for the heart and soul of the Democratic Party...
Sanders said yesterday his first task as coach would be to try to eliminate the Celtics' recent "defeatist attitude" by establishing better communication with the players. The Celtics' management cited low team morale as one of its reasons for firing Heinsohn...
...some, this asessment may seem defeatist, but in fact, it is a reality. A winning women's basketball team at Harvard is now also a reality...
...book, adapted from Charles M. Schultz's pop-psychological ponderings, really is. Or is it? If it isn't, then it's a good thing that little kids don't understand it. I certainly wouldn't want my little kid to be exposed to a message so inherently defeatist--even though you can't hit a baseball, and your dog only likes you because you feed him, and you pay your nickels to an amateur psychiatrist and you'll probably never amount to a hill of beans, don't worry, Charlie Brown and Everyman...