Word: pariah
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There are countless examples of the underdogs winning out over fat cats who were overconfident and lazy, who just didn't work as hard. Take the case of Buster Douglas, Jr., who beat a seemingly indomitable but actually flabby and pariah-surrounded Mike Tyson one glorious night in Japan five years ago. Buster then was bitten by the overconfidence bug that bit Tyson, and was knocked silly by Evander Holyfield. (Buster has since ballooned to a 400-pound man with dread locks. "I always hated fighting," he says...
While Nigeria would appear to have become an international pariah overnight, it's been in since the 1967-70 Biafran war, an ethnic Bloodbath that claimed 250,000 lives...
...tests off Murora Atoll, it placed itself in the company of Iran (which has been pursuing what some have conjectured to be an aggressive nuclear development program with French assistance) and China (with continues to conduct tests despite outrage among its Asian neighbors) as one of the handful of pariah countries still pursing conspicuous nuclear development. More importantly, during the 50th anniversary of Hiroshima, France has caused a global outcry, drawing caustic condemnation not only from Pacific nations including Japan itself...
...Milosevic says, he will personally lead a campaign to deliver the Bosnian Serbs to the peace table-and will bring off a comprehensive regional peace "within six months." What is also clear is that to lift from Serbia (or from Milosevic, or both) the burden of being an international pariah, he has made substantial efforts behind the scenes to prove his good offices...
Although Moderation Management claims just 400 adherents at present, Kishline, who recently published a book on the subject, is already something of a pariah in recovery circles. Antialcohol groups have issued press releases condemning her approach, and individual members of A.A. have blasted her thinking as just another form of denial. It is almost as if she had called for the abolition of A.A. itself. In fact, Kishline has merely helped bring into the open one of the most contentious and enduring debates in addiction research: whether most people who repeatedly abuse alcohol suffer from a disease over which they...