Word: disarray
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...said nurturing President Reagan and perfecting the dynamic of single-issue politics accomplished the new right's goal of changing the American political agenda. But while providing the new right with power and influence, Edwards said, it has also put the conservatives into a state of disarray, which might be their undoing...
...during which Kertesz felt forgotten, he continued to photograph. Some of the most pungent images in the Chicago show were made in New York during the 1940s and '50s. Partial to the human scale of Paris, Kertesz had to adjust his eye to the magnitude and visual disarray of America. In the process, he saw things that a more acclimatized vision might miss. In one picture from 1947, the immense web work of the Queensboro Bridge is played against the finer lattice of the superstructure around some storage tanks. Then diagonal ranks of metal pipe chimneys lead...
...with New Democracy in disarray and the Communists chastened, Papandreou emerged as a more powerful leader than before. Said a longtime Greek ambassador: "Now he can do whatever he likes with Greece. He may wake up some morning with a headache and decide to take us out of NATO...
...seats, reflecting their 66% election majority. The remainder are divided among six small parties that are described as opposition but that often vote with the Sandinistas. The main opposition group outside the legislature, the Coordinadora Democratica Nicaraguense, refused to participate in the election and remains leaderless and in disarray. In any case, the work of the Assembly is largely peripheral. Under a constitutional state of emergency declared in 1982 in response to the contra threats, almost all important decisions are enacted by presidential decree...
...disciples, "but it doesn't help in recruitment or in image building." An even stronger view is taken by Anson Shupe of the University of Texas at Arlington, an expert on the movement. He sees a loss of momentum in the Moon cult, viewing it as an organization in disarray, pouring "millions of dollars down the drain" and unable to hold on to recruits. Says he: "What the Moonies do is ludicrous. Most people who go through that experience with them walk away later...