Word: evil
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...will try to do this year or next. It is easier to cut back programs for the poor than to whack entitlements for the middle class, which by and large escaped the budget ax last term. It is easier to buy more arms and denounce the Soviets as an "evil empire" than it is to work out meaningful arms- control agreements...
...President take back any of his tough statements of a couple of years ago (an evil empire that reserves the right "to lie, to cheat"). "I think all those served a purpose. In the past we've dealt with them on a mirror-image basis--that, well, gee, they're just like us. And if they see that we're nice, why, they'll be nice too. I thought it was time that we (talked straight...
Gladney's hustle works in reverse; instead of enhancing trivialities with phony significance, he reduces the century's paramount expression of evil to classroom entertainment. Getting a handle on his domestic arrangements is a little more difficult. The Gladneys are a parody of relationships resulting from multiple divorce. Stepchildren, half brothers and half sisters drift in and out of the household. One former wife is abroad with the CIA; another runs the business end of an ashram under the name Mother Devi. Talk is plentiful, but communication is illusive. "There must be something in family life that generates factual error...
Almost everyone worries about the possible Soviet response. What happens when the Evil Empire strikes back with a Star Wars program of its own? Surely the Kremlin will not sit back and wait for the U.S. to share its technological breakthroughs, as Reagan has offered. Nor are the Soviets likely to rely solely, or even mainly, on their shields; rather they will continue to amass nuclear spears. The result could be the worst of all possible worlds, one that combines imperfect defenses and escalating offenses...
...Japanese have stirred some resentment in several Asian countries. Says Alunan Glang, a Filipino historian: "If we don't watch out, we Filipinos will no longer be known as 'little brown Americans,' but as 'little brown Japanese,' and God knows which is the lesser evil." In a speech last August, Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamed accused the Japanese of practicing "economic colonialism...