Word: dispiritedness
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The parliament outlawed not only Solidarity but all other existing labor organizations as well, clearing the way for a new set of factory-based unions that the government clearly intends to control. With Solidarity Leader Lech Walesa and some 600 other key members still in custody, Jaruzelski was gambling that...
Everywhere one looked at the National Cable Television Association (N.C.T.A.) convention in Las Vegas last May, people were buoyant about their prospects in a business whose time apparently had come. Last week, however, cable's optimists got a jolt: communications giant CBS (1981 revenues: $4.1 billion) announced that it...
From the American perspective, Israel's assault on West Beirut came at a most inopportune moment. Habib appeared to have worked out a complex agreement that would have provided for the evacuation of the P.L.O. from Lebanon. That the Israelis seemed willing to jeopardize the Habib mission indicated to...
Contrary to the implication in your article "Bush Does It His Way" [Feb. 22], George Bush is a most effective Vice President, ably assisted by a loyal staff who are far from dispirited. I never told your reporter my recommendations on scheduling were overruled, as you state. Counter to your...
It is one of the fascinating paradoxes and ironies of the Reagan Administration. The right-wingers of the Republican Party keep attacking Vice President George Bush, charging that he is a moderate who is working to undermine the Reagan revolution. But Bush's critics have an inflated view of...