Word: disaffectedness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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That leaves the bargaining power of Islamic Jihad weakened at a time when the organization is finding itself increasingly politically isolated. McCarthy's and Tracy's release may have been a desperate attempt to remind an inattentive international audience of the fundamentalists' agenda. But as the Leyraud abduction demonstrated, that...
What's ailing these doctors? In three words: the gag rule. Two months ago, the Supreme Court upheld a Reagan Administration ban on abortion counseling at federally funded clinics and thus permitted the type of government meddling that makes doctors most uncomfortable: restricting, based on political rather than professional considerations...
Conservatives, meanwhile, dutifully paid homage to these values and scooped up disaffected Democrats. But conservatives failed Americans by trying to ; placate both supply-siders and traditional Republicans with an economic model that included massive tax cuts and higher defense spending. The Republican legacy is a $3 trillion debt, held in...
Nikita Khrushchev once scoffed that his country would ditch communism when "a shrimp learns to whistle." Much of the world thought it heard that unlikely music last March when Soviet legislators amended the constitution to abolish the Communist Party's guaranteed monopoly on political power. Four months later, establishment baiter...
But that timetable could grind to a halt amid fresh outbreaks of black- against-black violence or a growing backlash from disaffected whites. Less than 24 hours after Mandela and Buthelezi embraced last week, an A.N.C.-Inkatha clash killed at least eight people and injured 60 others in Natal province...