Word: pariahs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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North's career and reputation have fallen into limbo since Nov. 25, when he was fired by Ronald Reagan for his central role in the Iran-contra scandal. The man whom the President described as a "national hero" has become a pariah to the embattled Administration. White House aides depict North as an overzealous underling who misled his colleagues and superiors and perverted the President's foreign policy. When a high-ranking Reagan official asked about inviting North for dinner, the State Department's legal adviser, Abraham Sofaer, told him to "forget...
...studio made me shoot more and more horror. The picture was released in 1981, and the audience never went. I'd been hot, and all of a sudden I was cold. People who had wanted me a year before didn't want to talk. I felt like a pariah...
Except for the international set that frolics on its Mediterranean beaches, Spain has long been anything but an In country. It was something of a pariah for decades under the dictatorial rule of Generalissimo Francisco Franco. Suddenly, however, it has become one of the hot spots on the international business scene. Just one year after Spain won full-fledged membership in the European Community, the country's economic growth is accelerating, its stock market is surging, and foreign capital is pouring across its borders at a record rate. Spanish businessmen are already looking ahead to an expected bonanza from...
...much of a choice," complains the now deceased founder of Buckeye Basin on his head-stone. Such is the comic dilemma of the town pariah, Cassie (Rosanna Arquette). After stabbing the village stud with a fork for loving and leaving her, Cassie is none too popular in her hometown. Having bungled suicide attempt after attempt, she resigns herself to a boring job and a life in limbo...
...country is an international pariah, isolated from much of the world and at odds with both superpowers. Its ruler is an 86-year-old cleric who lives in near seclusion. For almost six years, it has been mired in a grinding and inglorious war that seems to drag on without end. Reduced to using 20-year- old technology against an enemy that boasts six times as much combat aircraft and four times as much artillery, it has lost an estimated 250,000 lives and still spends $7 billion a year to keep up the fight...