Word: nationalism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Just 36 hours after Menem's address, his administration announced the first steps of "unusually severe, exceptional and emergency" measures designed to break the nation's hyperinflation (114% for June alone) and to restore confidence in its virtually insolvent government. Among them: a 90-day wage- and-price freeze, a 116% devaluation of the austral to 650 vs. the U.S. dollar and an aggressive privatization of most state-run companies. Because the end of many government subsidies will bring unavoidable price increases for some goods and services, all workers will be given a bonus of 8,000 australes...
...even 20 years later, looking with a more observant eye at the live footage of the first landing on the moon, it is easy to see why the Apollo mission captured the imagination of the nation as it did. Twenty years (and more) of science fiction movies have been unable to recreate the silent majesty of the lunar landscape on the day it was first marred by human footprints...
...easy to understand the sense of pride the nation took in its accomplishment. After all, hadn't America been founded on just the same spirit of adventure and exploration? Didn't the sheer effort required to catapult three astronauts millions of miles beyond their native sphere attest, once and for all, to the dominance of American technology...
...sounds like a noble goal. But what reasons does the president give for launching the nation on a mission that will almost certainly take decades to complete, at a cost of billions of dollars...
Such a dream may be seductive, may sound sexy to the ears of millions of Americans, but it is a fairly tenuous thing for any nation to be risking so much time and money...