Word: palled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Falwell spoke, the PTL scandal continued to cast a pall across the entire secretive big business of televangelism. As never before, "skeptics have fuel for their fires," said David Hubbard, president of Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, Calif. "They may see this as reflecting on the excesses of the whole evangelical movement...
Lonetree was originally arrested late last year in Vienna. Charges against Bracy were filed about three months later, shortly before Secretary of State George Shultz was scheduled to arrive in Moscow for arms-control and summit discussions. The spy charges cast a pall over the Shultz mission; some State Department officials say that was one reason the charges were so well publicized, perhaps even hyped. Says a senior U.S. diplomat: "There are forces of darkness, if you want to call them that, who oppose any kind of long-term improvement in U.S.-Soviet relations." Even Republican Congressman Richard Cheney...
...seven leaders is the rising potential for global recession along with a painful end to five years of sustained economic growth. To help prolong that expansion, the leaders must try to make stronger commitment to resist the lure of protectionism, which is beginning to cast a dangerous pall over world trade. Another summit priority will be taking further steps to ease the international debt crisis, which is simmering once again with the decision by Citicorp and other big U.S. banks to set aside billions of dollars for anticipated Third World loan losses...
...clashes sent shock waves throughout the South Pacific and cast a pall over the country's second biggest industry, tourism. No one was certain all week who was actually running the troubled paradise. The violence and unrest were a trauma for a country whose racial harmony had led Pope John Paul II last year to call Fiji a "symbol of hope for the world." Said Agricultural Minister Jo Nacola: "We haven't ever had scenes like that before in the history of our country...
...real biggie." Soviet penetration of embassy communications has been so extensive, officials fear, that U.S. negotiating positions were compromised before the Reykjavik summit last October. The security damage has also seriously hampered preparations for Secretary of State George Shultz's trip to Moscow April 13 -- and could cast a pall over prospects for a summit this year...