Word: making
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...effective smear has at its core an outrageous charge that would be devastating if true. The author must be both coy and cowardly: he must make the charge stick while retaining deniability. Although Goodin, Atwater's friend of a decade, took the fall, the tactic bore the unmistakable Atwater stamp. As Bush's 1988 campaign manager, Atwater specialized in character assassination: last summer Michael Dukakis was dogged by rumors that he had been treated for depression. In a similar incident in 1980, Atwater was managing the campaign of South Carolina Congressman Floyd Spence when a reporter asked Spence's Democratic...
...successful attempt to deliver the body to its final resting place, this time encased in a metal coffin. Again arms flailed and chants of "Death to America!" filled the air as the helicopter touched down. Although barricades held most of the crowd at bay, the Guards were forced to make a frantic push past the outstretched hands to deliver the coffin to the grave site. At the last instant, the metal lid of the casket was ripped off, and the body was rolled into the grave, in keeping with an Islamic tradition that requires that the dead be interred...
...airline fares). The premium you paid for the platinum card, which has an annual fee of $300 a year vs. $75 for the gold card, primarily bought you prestige, the cost of which to Amex is nil. And the baggage insurance -- well, it would be hard to make a case that this is the kind of insurance protection that privileged Americans should not leave home without, but the offer, as always, was compelling. These guys really know how to write a letter...
Ironically, Poland's resounding display of democracy seemed likely to make other Soviet-bloc regimes -- already bedeviled by reformist rumblings -- rethink the wisdom of opening up the electoral process. Said a senior Western diplomat in Warsaw: "It may have been the worst possible result for glasnost in Eastern Europe. Every Communist Party in the region must now be aware that democratization is the beginning...
What finally pushed the Jaruzelski government to the bargaining table was the same thing that sparked the popular uprisings of 1956, 1970 and 1981: economics. Although the regime could drive Solidarity underground, it could not make the country's hopelessly inefficient factories produce more or put food on empty grocery shelves. For more than seven years, Jaruzelski tried to carry out economic reforms while refusing to negotiate with Solidarity or democratize the political structure. The results were dismal: industrial production fell steadily, while the foreign debt climbed to $39.2 billion and inflation crept toward 100%. When public discontent erupted...