Word: orderers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Gorbachev is going to be thrown out--and I think there's every reason to believe that he probably will--then if you made all kinds of accommodations on the assumption that there is a brand new world order, you could find yourself embarrassed, having to backtrack, being called a dupe and also involving yourself in some things that would be much more costly if you have to try to gear up again after what did take place," Goldman says...
...Bush aide who helped mastermind the President's election. "George Bush is one of the most underestimated men in politics. The key to him is that he has learned to keep his eye on the ball. He's learned that getting there requires that you sometimes swallow hard in order to later be in a position to do the things you want to do. The real way to view Doonesbury's line about Bush having put his manhood in a blind trust is to see it as a masterful act of political calculation and an extraordinary example of self-discipline...
...settlers, who claim the West Bank as their biblical right, have complained that the army is failing to protect them. When Shamir started to speak at a memorial service this month for two Israeli victims of the intifadeh, mourners yelled, "You are doing nothing!" Nor did the new battle order satisfy the settlers, who have demanded such extreme reprisals as shooting all stone throwers on sight. "For them ((the Palestinians)) it's a festival, for us a continuous Yom Kippur," said Rehavam Ze'evi of the far-right Homeland Party, referring to the solemn day of atonement...
...each time the army toughens its measures, critics abroad protest. In Washington, State Department spokesman Charles Redman called the new I.D.F. guidelines "very disturbing" and declared, "We don't believe that the use of lethal force in non-life-threatening situations should be necessary to preserve order." Such comments carry weight in Jerusalem at a time when the Israeli government feels considerable pressure to pursue a diplomatic solution. Prime Minister Shamir is drawing up a new peace plan to present to Washington in March that he hopes will cool the fire in the territories by offering a modicum of political...
...decline theorist, Mancur Olson, laid out the case in his 1982 classic The Rise and Decline of Nations. Olson showed that mature societies start to decline when layers of powerful special-interest groups -- inefficient producers, inflexible unions, governmental bureaucracies -- succeed in impeding the normal "creative destruction" of capitalism. In order to hold on to what they have, they stave off change. But in the end, the whole society pays for the accumulated obsolescences and inefficiencies. The result is decline...