Word: legacyism
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Despite what many people believe about the perils of marijuana use, the real reason for the double-standard is cultural, not rational or scientific. Alcohol is a deeply ingrained part of our culture. It has been around for thousands of years. It is indispensable to both blue-collar pastimes and...
Saddam's more enduring legacies are also more mundane. By killing off anybody who might pose a threat to him, he prevented the natural emergence of new generations of leaders, so that the country is now run by political neophytes without experience or the skill to rule. The corruption that...
The answer: not much-at least not immediately. In theory, the global Internet is highly resistant to catastrophic failure because it's a mesh of interconnected smaller networks, all providing alternative data pathways should any single link fail. Indeed, Asia's abundant data capacity and plentiful circuits-a legacy of...
The delay has angered Putin, believes Lilia Shevtsova, an analyst at the Carnegie Moscow Center. Putin's second and final term as Russian President ends in 2008, and a successful reabsorption of Belarus would ensure his legacy as the first reunifier of the Slavic lands lost by his predecessors Mikhail...
Commentator John Ridley's view-point column "Why I'm Good with the 'N' Word" [Dec. 11] disregarded the word's legacy of dehumanizing black people. The mere utterance triggers a mental videotape of hatred, violence and oppression. It's not just "mollycoddles" who oppose it. Employment discrimination based on...