Word: forget
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Jefferson's day separating Washingtonians from their constituents we now have a six-lane macadamized beltway. And there are plenty of goings-on within that circle to keep politicians occupied. Granted Reagan's foreign policy apparatus deserves a lot of attention in the upcoming election, but let's not forget that there are plenty of non-Washington based issues out there that also should be the focus of the upcoming campaigns...
...caused an international furor, but one which led to a nationalistic reaction among Germans agitated by the attention brought to the Hitler years. In a widely praised and widely publicized speech, the 67-year old statesman took his nation--and his own political party--to task for trying to forget its Nazi past...
...skip them over as if they were just another item on a long curriculum vitae. But it also displayed an insensitivity to the very reasons that make von Weizsacker a man worthy of giving this year's commencement address and receiving an honorary degree: his call never to forget the past...
...America (rooty-toot-toot) makes the best TV beer commercials (tantara) in the universe. Nobody else is close, unless it is some race of advertising geniuses in the Crab nebula, and that is not close, and anyway the Crabs do not have John Madden or Mickey Spillane, so forget them...
...hard-luck Mexicans, 1987 is already a year that many would like to forget. Last week the peso crashed through the once unthinkable barrier of 1,000 to the dollar, a sharp signal of plummeting confidence in the country at home and abroad. Foreign banks have balked at extending new loans to keep the economy afloat. To make matters worse, with national elections 18 months away, the scramble to succeed President Miguel de la Madrid threatens to paralyze his government until a new President is chosen...