Word: ism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Zhao Ziyang declared that "Hong Kong will remain unchanged for at least 50 years after 1997." In an interview in the authoritative Peking weekly magazine Outlook (circ. 300,000), a Chinese spokesman on Hong Kong, Ji Pengfei, outlined a remarkably specific blueprint for absorbing that tiny outpost of capital ism into the vast citadel of Communism...
Leape said that the growing interest is the University's job training resources does not indicate growing professional ism, but an increased concern which is expressed in anxiety about 'will I be able...
...greatest fear of American policymakers has been that the Arab-Israeli conflict would gradually, or perhaps suddenly, drive other, traditionally moderate Arabs toward Gaddafi's militant banner. U.S. officials are concerned that Gaddafi-ism, as his brand of uncompromising opposition to the existence of any Jewish state in the area is sometimes called, will spread, and along with it his influence...
...over-sign. The United States planted the seed of violent conflict in nations such as Salvador and Nicaragua by maintaining obedient dictatorships and failing to nuture genuine democracy. It is the force of war that rips the soul from third world societies, not the power of one or another "-ism." The anti-communist crusaders bear much of the blame for the horrible peace in Indochina and for the continuing hardship in Central America. Countering Soviet totalitarianism is a valid goal, but the Cold Warriors, young and old, have only made it more difficult to achieve...
...representation on the council. For the very notion of what constitutes an "oppressed minority" at Harvard is itself open to question as white gays and women, Asians, non-Black Hispanics, and middle-class Blacks conveniently pimp off the legitimate claims of redress made by the Black poor. "Third World"-ism here functions as a self-serving rhetorical device to obscure crucial historical differences and advance the interests of non-black minorities...