Word: divisionism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The party has for decades been fundamentally split. The division has been partly ideological, but to an even greater extent cultural, regional and social. One branch has been dominated by a right-wing populist strand, predominantly Western, rural and Main Street, whose antecedents stretch back to the isolationists and McCarthyites...
Only a few days earlier, Kirkpatrick's boss had given Moscow a good example of what she meant. Addressing a White House lunch for Polish-American leaders, the President said that the U.S. could not passively accept the "permanent subjugation of the people of Eastern Europe." Reagan cited the...
Behind such expressions of State Department impatience is a feeling that Nicaragua's ruling nine-member National Directorate is split over the strategy that it should pursue in the negotiations. The prevailing speculation among U.S. policymakers is that Junta Coordinator Ortega, who is also the Sandinista candidate for President...
Bumbling inefficiency and weak management have long characterized British industry. The reason, charged Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher while running for office, was that nearly 40 years of state ownership had sapped the initiative of many of Britain's largest and best-known companies. So within months after coming to...
But as the Claiborne case proved, convictions can rarely be won on the basis of such testimony. "Corroboration is the key," says Stephen Trott, chief of the Justice Department's criminal division. "Without corroboration, you're probably dead in the water." In the De Lorean case, the prosecution...