Word: historicizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Insistence upon respect for the continuing validity of Judaism was the important achievement of the assembly. The delegates repudiated the idea that God turned against the Jews because they rejected Jesus as the Messiah, and expressed repentance for Christianity's part in past anti-Semitism. The American Jewish Committee said...
Two historic forces brought an end to that era, sweeping women out of the home and into the workplace and creating a new demand for child care. First came the feminist movement of the '60s, which encouraged housewives to seek fulfillment in a career. Then economic recessions and inflation struck...
It has been 14 years since marine archaeologists rediscovered the U.S.S. Monitor, the Civil War ironclad that sank in a storm near Cape Hatteras, N.C., ten months after the historic 1862 standoff with its Confederate counterpart, the C.S.S. Virginia.* Since then more than 100 artifacts have been recovered from the...
To critics who complain that the hearings have needlessly weakened Reagan, Maine's Democratic Senator George Mitchell noted that it was the President "who asked the Congress to create a committee to explore these situations to get the truth to the American people." As last week's testimony demonstrated, the...
After the bailout of Mexico, the next major challenge for Volcker came in the summer of 1984, when Continental Illinois, once the seventh largest bank in the U.S., suffered a relentless run on its deposits after word got out about its immense pile of bad loans. To stave off a...