Word: defeats
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...projections on final vote tallies. The problem first received widespread attention after the 1980 Presidential contest, when President Jimmy Carter's early concession prompted as much as two per cent of the Western electorate to stay home, according to several studies. Although this probably didn't cause Carter's defeat, the results of state-level contests may have been decisively affected. The practice of spot-polling voters as they leave the polls, and instantaneous transmission of the results to TV screens, may have had the same discouraging effect...
...there is more, the experts note, as they put the pieces together. Anchorman Dan Rather took a long look at Mondale on the CBS Evening News in September 1983. Indeed Mondale had never faded from he screen after defeat. As early as October 1981 he was back on Meet the Press, the highest Democrat available to satisfy TV's hunger for political combat. Jimmy Carter had become a virtual recluse. Mondale was, after all, the front runner. But did being first early make him first always? Certainly his pre-eminent position on the nightly news and in newspaper...
...would enable Europeans to confront?on their own initiative and in their own context?issues that have been evaded for at least two decades: the precise definition of an adequate conventional defense; the nature of the so-called nuclear threshold?the point where there is no choice except conventional defeat or nuclear escalation; the relationship between strategy and arms control. Since nuclear weapons would presumably be used only if conventional defense failed, Europe would be responsible for setting the nuclear threshold by its own efforts; it could relieve its nuclear anxieties by the simple expedient of augmenting its conventional defenses...
...danger was that if Iraq suffered a major battlefield defeat it might decide to use the Super Etendard fighter-bombers it bought from France last fall to attack Kharg Island, Iran's principal oil terminal. Iran has repeatedly said it would retaliate by blockading the strait, thereby halting shipment of most of the oil produced by Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and Iran. Last week Iranian officials warned again that if the U.S. and its supporters try to intervene in the war "their fate would be decisively worse than their fate in Lebanon...
...provide assistance to Argentine forces on the remote Falklands while British troops closed in. If found guilty of that offense, the pair may be given sentences of death or life imprisonment. Brigadier General Lami Dozo, whose spirited air defense against the British gave Argentina its only consolation in defeat, still faces the possibility of a lengthy prison sentence and dishonorable discharge...