Word: fading
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...things seemed certain last week: 1) foreign policy will loom much larger as a campaign issue than any of the candidates would have predicted two months ago and 2) Jimmy Carter's sudden rise in popular esteem, based on his cool handling of the hostage situation, could fade just about as fast if his response to the twin problems of Iran and Afghanistan is eventually viewed by the voters as being ineffective. Despite the current commanding leads of Carter and Reagan for their party's nominations, 1980 promises to be a highly volatile political year...
...United Nations. Before the end of the decade, the United States had added its formal recognition and American officials were busy at work clearing up the various entanglements of frozen assets to confer most-favored-nation status on China. For Americans the initial exoticism and Pollyannish reporting began to fade after several years as thousands of American traveled to China each year, including several hundred scholars who would remain beyond a quick tourist trip, and several hundred businessmen who hoped for opportunities from one billion potential customers...
Indeed no one expected Rhodesia's savage civil war to fade away quietly. In the first week following the signing of the cease-fire agreement, 80 Rhodesians were killed in continuing clashes and sporadic skirmishes between guerrillas and Salisbury security forces. Three Royal Air Force troops, members of the Commonwealth monitoring force, also died when their Puma helicopter crashed after accidentally striking a power line; they were the first casualties of Britain's sponsorship of the truce. In other provocations, guerrilla supporters were regularly abused by hostile blacks as well as by whites. On several occasions white police...
...stickhandling. Their street-gang tactics earned them an eight-year stretch as the champs of the National Hockey League penalty box, including a record 33 hours in 1975-76. For a while it paid off. The Philadelphia Flyers won the Stanley Cup in 1974 and 1975, then began to fade. This year the Flyers still lead the league in penalty minutes-old habits die hard-but something new has been added: the elegant, almost choreographed blend of skating and passing precision developed by the Soviet national teams and the champion Montreal Canadiens...