Word: historicizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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China's Deng Xiaoping, TIME's Man of the Year in 1978, boldly delivered on his promises to open the Chinese economy and bring the world's most populous nation into the political and economic mainstream. The reforms that had allowed a small degree of capitalism and entrepreneurship in the...
The women's movement, stung by the defeat of the Equal Rights Amendment in 1982, had redoubled its efforts to secure a greater role for women in the nation's political life. The Democratic Convention was the spectacular culmination of those efforts. Women across the country spoke of feeling validated...
Sweeping, overwhelming, historic--Ronald Reagan's 1984 landslide merited all those terms. But one thing it could not be called was unexpected. In January, White House polls showed Reagan to have a chance of carrying nearly every state; by midyear, national surveys put his lead over Democrat Walter Mondale near...
Treasury Secretary Donald Regan made that stunningly blunt remark last February in an effort to disown the 330-page annual report issued by the President's Council of Economic Advisers. The study had warned about the danger posed by the Administration's huge budget deficits. The White House...
The Bhopal disaster was both a human tragedy of historic proportions and a nightmare for one of the largest and best-known U.S. corporations. The horrible dimensions of the accident last week stunned Union Carbide's executives, employees and shareholders. Jittery investors dumped the company's stock, which...