Word: extremist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...characterized both the explosion of TWA Flight 800 and the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah building in Oklahoma City as works of extremist Muslims, charges that were both later proved false. As someone often regarded as a expert on terrorism, he is listened to and believed readily when he makes these comments, and thus has a responsibility to weigh evidence and choose his words more carefully. Otherwise, he propagates stereotypes...
...well known--probably falsely--for an extremist position, and I wanted to hear what she really wants," said Georgianna P. Powell...
...party, whose leader, Joerg Haider, has expressed views sympathetic to the Third Reich, became the second largest party in Austria after Sunday?s election, finishing only 6 percent behind the ruling Social Democrats and ahead of its coalition partner, the conservative People?s party. The mystery is how an extremist party has managed to break into the mainstream at a time of prosperity and relative social calm. "Austrians are not angry, they?re bored," says TIME Central Europe bureau reporter Dejan Anastasijevic. "The Social Democrats have run Austria for more than 50 years, and the fact that they?ve been...
...enactment of costly preventive measures now, before all the evidence is in, would invite economic disaster. Still others use the debate as an opportunity to portray Democratic presidential contender Gore, author of the environmental tract Earth in the Balance and the U.S. representative at Kyoto, as an environmental extremist...
This possibility verges on the extraordinary because only 27 out 10,000 proposed constitutional amendments have ever been ratified. One might think that with the seriousness with which we treat the topic there are tens of thousands of extremist militia or political groups who go out each night and have flag-burning events. Not exactly. The number of actual incidents involving a physical desecration of the flag is paltry, and of so little interest to the public that the media does not publicize such occurrences...