Word: overtaken
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...successful space-shuttle flights, the explosion of Challenger and the loss of its seven crew members had been widely viewed as a tragic but virtually inevitable cost of pioneering on the high frontier of space. As it one day must, so it was said, ill fortune had finally overtaken the methodical, ever cautious, technological wizards of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Declared President Reagan on that fateful day: "It's all part of the process of exploration and discovery; it's all part of taking a chance and expanding man's horizons...
...factor in Aquino's decision to go forward quickly with a civil- disobedience campaign was the fear that her moderate forces would soon be overtaken by pro-Communist groups eager to exploit the popular frustration at Marcos' formal election victory. As she planned her forthcoming rallies, Aquino continued to act forcefully to keep radical leftists from climbing aboard her campaign. One would-be partner: the 1 million-member leftist coalition known as Bayan, whose leadership is widely believed to have links to the Communist New People's Army. Aquino has every reason to be leery of newfound leftist allies. Throughout...
...House position drew cautious praise last week from U.S. bankers, who have $230 billion at risk in Latin America alone. Said Lawrence Brainard, senior vice president of Manhattan's Bankers Trust: "What we expect from Baker is a totally new approach. The U.S. must assume leadership to avoid being overtaken by the crisis." Added Princeton University Economist Peter Kenen: "Baker has learned very quickly what the international realities are. He is going about this in a sensible way." Even so, some bankers feared that the debtors might be allowed too much freedom, which could encourage them to resume their free...
...come in the future to this new phase, and to open up a new stage in the military sphere, then surely the question is: Could we really deal with these matters? Would not there be a temptation on one or the other side to believe, "At last we have overtaken our partner. Is it not time then to seek to achieve superiority and to untie our hands in the field of foreign policy...
...diversity than they once were. "America is much more of a pluralistic society now," says Peter Rose, professor of sociology at Smith College. "You don't hear so much talk about the melting pot today. The old ideology, the concerted effort to make people the same, has been overtaken by reality...