Word: idealizations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...down for an exclusive interview with TIME, the President had another success to claim: the signing Friday in Geneva of an accord with North Korea. That country, as the President put it, agreed "first to freeze and then to dismantle" its nuclear-bombmaking capability. That agreement is not ideal. Essentially the U.S. and its allies won from North Korea a commitment to stop violating the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty and replace old nuclear-power plants that produce weapons-grade plutonium in exchange for a big payoff: free fuel oil and $4 billion (mostly put up by South Korea and Japan...
...This is a great opportunity," sophomore Rachel Chernikoff says. "We lost to them last year in a close game. For those of us returning, this game is a bit of revenge. If we win, we set up an ideal situation next weekend...
Picture the ideal U.S. economy. It would grow at a steady pace but not so fast as to ignite inflation. Unemployment would fall as companies created hundreds of thousands of new jobs every month. Banks would have plenty of cash and be eager to lend it. And, best of all, these happy conditions would last...
...image of the delicate woman bears a striking resemblance to the fifties ideal that my mother and the other women of her generation fought to get away from," Roiphe recently told an audience of 500 at the Institute of Politics. Anti-rape activists, she contends, have manipulated statistics to frighten college women with a nonexistent "epidemic" of date rape, and have encouraged them to view sexist jokes, straying hands and leers as intolerable assaults...
According to Murphy, under ideal conditions there wouldn't be that many freshmen in the lineup...