Word: nationalism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...highly contaminated sites on the agency's list were cleaned up under Reagan, and corporations balking at paying for it. On top of that, this administrator will have to find inventive ways to keep medical syringes and other noxious debris from washing up on the nation's beaches...
...Benazir Bhutto, last week's national elections in Pakistan must have seemed the storybook fulfillment of her father's fantasies. In the first truly free elections since the late President Mohammed Zia ul-Haq began his eleven years of autocratic rule, voters catapulted her Pakistan People's Party to dominance in the nation's politics and put Bhutto within reach of the prime- ministership once held by her beloved father. Dreams do come true. Scores do get settled...
...keener obstruction to Bhutto's authority may be the traditional attitudes of Pakistan's Islamic people. Not all are eager to live under the first Muslim government headed by a woman. In the days prior to the election, 40 mullahs issued a fatwa, or religious verdict, warning that a nation headed by a woman cannot prosper and risks falling "into the pit of Western cultural degeneration...
...average plunged 75 points, followed by the dollar's drop to near postwar lows against the yen. Investors who had sat quietly through candidate Bush's repeated taunts to Congress to "Read my lips -- no new taxes" decided that President-elect Bush had no convincing plan to cut the nation's towering trade and budget deficits. As the slide started, Bush hastily convened a seaside press conference to reassure nervous markets. With Atlantic waves crashing behind him, he allowed that his new burdens made him feel a bit "shell shocked," adding, "The problems are tremendous...
...carrier battle groups and nuclear missiles) and into middle-class entitlement programs like Social Security and farm subsidies (which Bush has promised to protect). As President, Bush will also face urgent new multibillion-dollar spending requirements to salvage the bankrupt savings and loan industry and rebuild the nation's defective nuclear-fuels plants. As a practical matter, his "kinder, gentler" promises for better funding of child care, national parks and college-tuition programs may have to wait...