Word: drifting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even that relatively modest outcome should make the meeting a re-election asset for Reagan. One of his few campaign weaknesses has been the nagging worry that he had let relations between the nuclear superpowers drift into a dangerous limbo. Simply appearing on TV with Gromyko should win him points from voters for at least trying to restart a dialogue...
...Ronald Reagan is re-elected and the court loses either of its two aging liberals, William Brennan and Thurgood Marshall, the conservative drift could become a sea change. The right to abortion, affirmative action for blacks and women, the ban on school prayer, many procedural safeguards for criminal suspects and free-speech rights would be vulnerable to weakening, if not outright reversal. Says University of Minnesota Law School Associate Professor Daniel Farber: "We could basically end up with the law looking a lot like it did before 1954. We could expect a much more conservative court, a Warren Court...
...Republican moderates and liberals argue that the party's problems stem not from too liberal candidates, but rather from the Republican leadership's drift toward the right. They say the party's fortunes reached a nadir under the leadership of the likes of Gordon Nelson, whom Sears describes as "not only in right field but beyond the foul pole...
...dealing with the U.S. At the top of the list is acid rain, which is threatening Canada's important fishing and timber industries−and which many Canadians blame on the U.S. The Reagan Administration contends that the link between acid rain and sulfur-dioxide emissions that drift northward from coal-fired power plants in the Midwest has not yet been proved. Mulroney, however, has promised to push the issue with the White House, most likely after the U.S. election in November. The Liberal government committed itself to halving emissions on its side of the border...
...Salvador; 3) curtailment of the country's formidable military arsenal and of any plans to use Nicaragua's Punta Huete airport, still under construction, as a base for advanced military aircraft; 4) fulfillment of Sandinista promises to support political pluralism, meaning reversal of the country's drift toward a Marxist-Leninist dictatorship...