Word: dustheap
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Judging from tough-guy rhetoric alone, it might appear that America is spoiling for a fight and, with the Soviet Union on the dustheap of history, Japan is the only serious adversary around. But the spate of Japan baiting mostly follows Teddy Roosevelt's maxim in reverse: loud talk and little stick. No presidential contender is reckless enough to portray Japan as the Evil Economy. America's congenital optimism may be cowering in the corner, but the candidates -- and most voters -- recognize that the roots of the nation's problems lie within the 50 states. Still, in the sound-bite...
Sorry, No Cigar Doesn't anyone return Fidel Castro's phone calls these days? The aging dictator saw most of his communist soul mates get tossed onto the dustheap of history, and the cash-strapped Soviets may be close to ending their $5 billion annual subsidy. Castro's efforts to expand tourism won't make up the difference...
...scrambling for her job are eight candidates -- and counting. Five are Republicans. Among them is Mecham, rising phoenix-like from the political dustheap just two years after he was thrown out of office. Says his button- down, blue-blood G.O.P. opponent, J. Fife Symington, "Tragically, Ev is the guy to beat in this primary...
...tail between his legs. Memoirs is too often a turgid history cum travelog speckled with diplomatic slavishness. "Staff at the Foreign Ministry did not discuss the purge trials," he says of the Stalinist era. "As diplomats, we avoided the subject." As a result, his book is destined for the dustheap of famous-people-I-have-met books...
...beyond its borders, he was also a Soviet patriot -- and besides, he valued his own skin. Therefore, he was emphatically not willing to let his sprawling, fractious country come apart at the seams and thus give his enemies the excuse they were looking for to cast him onto the dustheap of history...