Word: pillars
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Party (P.R.I.), essentially a monopoly political group that changes its near absolutist leader every six years. The P.R.I. has dominated Mexico for more than half a century. During that time, says Manuel Garcia y Griego, a historian at the prestigious Colegio de Mexico, "economic growth has been the central pillar of the functioning of the system." Bruce Bagley, a Washington-based Latin American expert at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies, warns that "if oil prices hold below $20 per bbl., it will be a disaster...
...increase in the appropriations of the armed forces. We have now changed the policy of keeping to ourselves all the matters that have to do with operations against the Communists. Our troops are highly trained now. (The rebels) are bleeding very badly. We have been driving them from pillar to post...
...match is a natural. Unlike Turner, a maverick outsider from Atlanta, Tisch is a pillar of the New York establishment. He is chairman of the New ! York University board of trustees, a leading supporter of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and a force behind the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies. His network ties include a longtime tennis partnership with Leonard Goldenson, the chairman...
...collection of essays, Plausible Prejudices, Joseph Epstein, a pillar of what has been called the Literary New Right, appoints himself sheriff of contemporary American literature...
Harvard is not now, nor has it ever been, a neutral pillar, of beaming morality. Harvard, with other institutions of hugher learning, serves as a training ground for this country's ruling class and its technocrats...