Word: flexed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Jack Kemp: Multi-flex. The famous former Buffalo Bills quarterback sees himself as the only candidate flexible enough to unify the three feuding factions of the Republican Party: the Reaganites, the New Right, and the Robertson Evangelicals. Unfortunately, no one seems to appreciate his flexibility--including most voters in each faction...
Once Reagan had established a symbolic and rhetorical framework in which to function, he had only to flex his military muscles slightly to intimidate. Granada may not have been an impressive target, but it showed Reagan's apparent willingness to use U.S. military might to achieve U.S. political objectives...
...South Africa, where a state of emergency has been in effect for more than a year, speculation swirled that the confrontation was political -- an attempt by a feisty black union to flex its muscle. Both sides denied this. "The crucial demand is wages," said N.U.M. General Secretary Cyril Ramaphosa."It's a straightforward industrial relations dispute," agreed Liebenberg...
...sure that the Government should necessarily have a solution," says Semerad. Nevertheless, the proposal will probably be politically attractive. "It is historic in that the Federal Government assumes the responsibility for dealing with these major problems of fundamental adjustment," says Pat Choate, author of The High-Flex Society. "We have over 2 million people a year who lose their jobs." He views the $1 billion, which could serve as many as 900,000 dislocated workers, as a "step in the right direction...
...first stop, my other roommate, a 19 year old, needed to flex her newfound, Vermont sanctioned legality by buying some beer. She walked up to the cashier and set down the beer. He rang up the bill and didn't even look like he wanted to card her. So she looked at him, then asked, "Don't you want to see my I.D.?" He said yes, took the driver's license from her, didn't look at it and handed it back...