Word: nationals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...than in sympathy -- the J.V.P. has in the past year murdered some 450 supporters of the accord -- most of the Sinhalese population cooperated. The strike marked the second time in a month that Sinhalese rebels have paralyzed Sri Lanka, reinforcing the impression that Jayewardene is losing control of a nation many fear is on the brink of anarchy...
Willy Loman knew how important it was to be well liked. Since Eisenhower won with the primitivist slogan "I Like Ike," Americans seem to require a pleasing affability from their Commander in Chief. Under Ronald Reagan, geniality was raised to an art form; the President became the nation's surrogate grandfather...
...older students find themselves juggling children, term papers and jobs, of course. Many -- mostly the nation's growing population of retirees -- seek out campuses for old-fashioned intellectual fulfillment. "Ever since I got out of college, I wanted to go back," says retired lawyer Robert Friedman, 73, who is one of 400 students enrolled in Harvard's Institute for Learning in Retirement, a program of courses specially created for and taught ! by retirees on the Cambridge campus. Eckerd College, strategically located in St. Petersburg, has even opened a 133-unit senior citizen condominium on its campus, complete with 60 nursing...
...Through Ben Sippy, dime novelist and later a scenarist for western movies, McMurtry confects a folklore about the making of folklore. By adding his special glow to long- forgotten pulp fiction and the advent of a machine that projects our fantasies, he answers the fundamental question, Why would a nation that strongly believed in its manifest destiny enshrine in its legends a nihilistic punk who had no future...
Once again, a Democrat from Massachusetts is challenging a Republican Vice President for the White House. But beyond the surface similarities lie vast differences. -- Bush widens the likability gap with Dukakis. -- Nancy Reagan promised to stop borrowing designer dresses -- but has she? -- Helping the homeless -- a campaign essay. See Nation...