Word: dispiritedness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Encouraged by a $10.3 million advertising campaign, Britons lined up at banks, post offices and department stores to pick up an estimated 2 million applications to buy the 1.16 billion Telecom shares reserved for individual investors. Although the scheduled per share price was $1.56, demand was so great that shares...
Yet Winter managed to dither away his political strength. First, after his supporters won a bitter struggle to have him appointed chancellor of the University of Mississippi ("Ole Miss") last December, Winter waffled, accepting the post and then changing his mind a week later. Then he appeared even more irresolute...
But it is clear now that Jimmy Carter was on to something real and powerful. Americans did feel defensive and dispirited about their nation: cynical about its faded grandeur, alarmed by what felt like the beginnings of economic chaos and despairing of prospects for improvement. The notion of even a...
Dispirited Labor strategists once again tried to patch together a narrow coalition excluding Likud, but Peres was swamped by fresh demands from the smaller parties. Only after much politicking did Labor and Likud leaders finally reach a compromise: neither SHAS nor the N.R.P. would receive the religion post, at least...
By contrast, the Liberal Party, headed by Prime Minister John Turner, won only 40 seats, down from 147 in 1980. The defeat was not only a loss for Turner but a national repudiation of the party dominated by the cosmopolitan, sometimes cavalier Pierre Elliott Trudeau, under whose leadership the Liberals...