Word: defeatists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Three's old defeatist philosophy about selling cars in Japan was to keep the prices high and market the cars as novelties. But last year, when the yen rose sharply against the U.S. dollar, Chrysler and Ford could afford to cut prices sharply. To their surprise, sales of the popular Taurus doubled, and last month the Jeep Cherokee became the first U.S.-made model in Japan to rack up more than 10,000 sales in a year. Clearly the fussy Japanese buyer who demanded a museum-quality body finish is in retreat; in his place is a worker whose income...
...months this summer, I was one of those s.o.b.'s. I interned for my senator in Washington, D.C. and bought into the defeatist atmosphere that hangs in the halls of Congressional office buildings. Yet in the midst of all this, I somehow emerged with a stronger belief in the potential of our democratic process and its bureaucracy...
...program also hints at the play's message: The world is "hurtling towards a social, ecological and mass-mediated cultural catastrophe, for which Western Enlightenment seems to have no solution." With this defeatist slogan in hand, Muller proceeds to attack the audience with images and scenarios that represent this "catastrophe...
Those who bash Japan are running down America. Their hand wringing and defeatist attitude assumes that the United States is a pitiful, helpless giant that can only survive behind new trade barriers. The path to prosperity in the next century lies not in building protectionist walls for ourselves but in breaching those erected by others...
This year the seven freshmen on the varsity team have been key in turning the defeatist attitude around...