Word: paradoxical
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ronald Reagan emerges from the election with his ideas somewhat battered but his leadership oddly intact. He is entering one of those times of presidential paradox when the very traits that took him to the top threaten his command...
...curious paradox, race actually has been an issue in the California governor's campaign. Last month, a Black leader triumphantly shouted. "We will elect a governor for this state who happens to be Black!" He expressed the national importance of the contest, which was obvious as early as a year ago. Bradley long ago mastered the delicate art of reassuring white voters of his competence and intentions of fairness. After long years of honing his skill, Californians seem to be saying Bradley is ready for the big time...
...disgust. As Jeane Kirkpatrick, the controversial U.S. Ambassador to the U.N., told TIME Correspondent James Wilde: "We need a new departure. We must give more importance to the U.N. and take it more seriously, both in the positive and negative aspects. The U.N. is vital to American interests." The paradox is that as the U.S. strives to prove that point, the uproar is liable to grow louder along the banks of Manhattan's East River. -By George Russell. Reported by Louis Malasz/United Nations and Gregory H. Wierzynski/Washington
Unprecedented bounty, serious worries about survival: this is the paradox confronting Steffen and thousands of other U.S. farmers. They are, it appears, too good for their own good. Three straight years of bumper crops have created enormous surpluses and pushed prices for the major crops lower than they have been in at least a decade, often below the cost of production. The year's expected harvests of corn (8.3 billion bu.), wheat (2.8 billion bu.) and soybeans (2.3 billion bu.) will be the largest in history, and yet U.S. farm income will be the smallest in real dollars since...
...idea behind the project, Denes says, was to devise "an intrusion of the country into the metropolis, the world's richest real estate. To grow a wheatfield on it, seemingly such a waste of precious space, is to create a powerful paradox: the congestion of the city of competence, sophistication and crime against the open fields and unspoiled farm lands...