Word: drifte
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...find out what their supporters want, let alone having to deal with questions like how they will vote on unemployment programs." If the Greens fail to win 5% of the vote, their future as a political force will depend on whether Vogel's Social Democrats maintain their leftward drift. In short, the Greens will disturb the West German political scene as long as there is room on the left for a new generation of skeptical citizens with a dim sense of the past and a hazy vision of the future. -By Frederick Painton. Reported by Roland Flamini and Gary...
Screaming is useful for the Sandinistas in another way. At a time when important sectors of Nicaraguan society have become alienated by the leftward drift of the regime, the constant evocation of a threat from the U.S. and the counterrevolutionaries, known as contras, has become an important domestic political weapon. Moreover, the strategy seems to work. For all their highly vocal insecurities, Nicaragua's rulers are more securely entrenched at home than ever...
...activists of the right have given up fighting Baker and instead are now criticizing Ronald Reagan directly. "The leftward drift has turned into a stampede," says Viguerie about the President and his policies. Baker is unconcerned about the flak from the right. He comments: "I'm feeling pretty good right...
...nonnuclear components. The nonnuclear parts are allowed to sink back into the atmosphere, where most of the metal burns up in the frictional heat of reentry. The reactor is lifted with one last spurt of rocket fuel to an altitude of 500 to 600 miles, where it can drift safely for hundreds of years...
...large U.S. and West European banks are right to be concerned about the drift of events, even if governments are not likely to permit big bank failures. The blow to public confidence would be so great