Word: longer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...like a cop on a beat, using its "big stick" to enforce the "primary laws of civilized society." It has aborted revolutions, overthrown unacceptable governments, and sent in troops to restore order in several Caribbean nations, including Haiti, Nicaragua and the Dominican Republic. Today, however, the Caribbean can no longer be considered an "American Lake." Travel ads entice U.S. tourists with the promise of swaying palms and unspoiled vistas of sandy beach. But the nationalistic winds sweeping through the Third World have created a new mood of anti-imperialism in the Caribbean, directed against the big Brother to the north...
...heat for unpopular decisions. But now, says Jeanne Labrousse, director of the polling institute I.F.O.P.: "We have reached the point where discontent is so high that Barre cannot absorb it all himself." According to Jacques Attali, a leading Socialist economist, the reason is that Giscard and Barre can no longer promise light at the end of the austerity tunnel. Says Attali: "The French are losing hope." According to a survey in the business magazine L'Expansion, three out of four Frenchmen now believe that the economic crisis will be "enduring" rather than "transitory...
...criminally irresponsible." But the bishops also lashed out at government corruption and violations of human rights, and declared that in the face of "manifest, longstanding tyranny," the use of force "is not absolutely ruled out." This was a thinly veiled warning that church leaders might one day no longer condemn open rebellion against the regime of President Ferdinand Marcos...
Church intellectuals with a longer-term view are watching John Paul's approach to doctrine. They are upset over three developments begun under Pope Paul VI that have been continued by John Paul. One is this year's formal Vatican condemnation of writings by French Theologian Jacques Pohier on grounds that among other "evident errors," he denied the bodily resurrection of Christ. The Vatican is also quietly investigating iconoclastic Dutch Theologian Edward Schilebeeckx. The new "apostolic constitution" intended to reaffirm controls over faculties that grant degrees under Vatican authority, is also troubling. This last decree affects departments...
...good guy will win and expects them to play off one another for the rest of the series. But Brooks has Mr. Good not only lose the job, but also quit the firm -and leave the show forever. "Once you make that move," he explains, "then you are no longer predictable...