Word: fallen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Political analysts noted that hardly a stump speech was offered by the Baby Boomers without an allusion to the Kennedys. But simultaneously, they questioned whether there was anything at the core of the Baby Boomers beyond some faint hope of tapping into the legacy of their fallen heroes...
...long struggle against racial discrimination in America, progress has been vast, if uneven and too slow. Barriers against equal access to public accommodations have fallen, voting rights of all citizens have been guaranteed, and blacks have assumed impressive political power in cities and state legislatures. Job opportunities have opened, and the once violent outcry against school desegregation has been muted. But the more intimate, elemental question of whether blacks can live beside whites has remained volatile, pitting neighbors against neighbors, the courts against communities, and a sense of social fairness against the besieged mentality of those who fear change...
That shameful act merely proved to foreshadow the stranglehold Jackson has on Blacks. There is not a Black politician willing to outright challenge Jackson these days. King's former aides have also fallen into line. Jackson has proven that not only can he get the Black vote, but that he can also direct...
...under arms (1 million, vs. about 650,000). Iraq also enjoys an edge in tanks, training and aircraft. On the home front, war weariness began to grip Iran and military enlistments dropped sharply. The normal contingent of 300,000 baseeji (volunteers) attached to Iran's Revolutionary Guards has lately fallen off by one-third, according to Western estimates. "There's no heroism in it for the village boys," a Western diplomat in Tehran told TIME Correspondent David S. Jackson. "They're afraid of chemical weapons, and there's no chance of coming back covered in glory...
Crisis time in Rome. Had another government fallen or the lira tumbled? Worse. Thanks to a ruling issued this month by the European Community's Court of Justice, Italy's lasagna may go limp and its fettuccine flaccid. For a nation that eats its pasta al dente, or firm to the tooth, such news is hard to swallow...