Word: loyalities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...upcoming leaders entered politics after Stalin's death in 1953, thus escaping the paralyzing effects of mass police terror and participation in the dictator's crimes. As a result, they may be less fearful, more self-confident and assertive, than the Brezhnev generation. Though the younger men are completely loyal to the Soviet system, they are less suspicious and more curious about the outside world. Better educated than the old rulers, many of whom attended only vocational schools, they are more aware of the shortcomings and the backwardness of Soviet society. At the same time they are more confident...
...ambush Republican Governor Bill Clements. White roused the voters not only over the economy but also with the somewhat spurious charge that the Governor should be held accountable for high utility rates. The Texas G.O.P. took a "shellacking," said the defeated Clements, who was one of Reagan's most loyal boosters...
Citing Frank Cardullo's "faithful and loyal service," the Greater Boston Association for Retarded Citizens (GBARC) named the owner of the Wursthaus Restaurant their 1982 Man of the Year award...
Jockey International, which began making men's underwear in 1876, is now planning to offer undergarments for women. The company claims that the move is logical because women are already loyal to the brand since they buy at least 70% of the shorts worn by their husbands or sons. Like men's briefs, Jockey For Her panties will be made of no-shrink cotton. None of that lacy, silky stuff. Jockey President Howard Cooley says the product will be "very feminine, even if it's not highly sensual...
...good thing too. Atlantic High will not displace Two Years Before the Mast or Moby Dick from even the most loyal conservative's bookshelf; Buckley's voyage is a piece of cake compared with those undertaken by Richard Henry Dana Jr. or Herman Melville. The storms encountered by the chartered 71-ft. ketch Sealestial are really industrial-strength squalls; the calms are overcome by the expedient of switching on the engine. It is Buckley's crew-as fine a collection of overachievers as ever spliced the main brace-who make the trip a sentimental journey...