Word: populares
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...ORDER: this term is used to stress the need for greater protection against violent crime. The expression was made popular by ex-President Richard M. Nixon and resurrected by Vice President George Bush. Nixon used the term "law and order" to create fear of race riots, rather than addressing the deep social problems--such as poverty and urban decay--that helped cause the riots. George Bush also used the issue of "law and order" for cheap political advantage. Bush fomented racial hatred and planted the seeds of terrifying nightmares of evil black rapists climbing in the windows of suburban homes...
...might even have been less popular in SouthBend than Gerry Faust...
Flush with success and growing demand, the major carriers raise their most . popular discount fares. Business travelers took the first hit, but vacationers will suffer as well...
Fagin, Scrooge, Uriah Heep, Mr. Micawber and Mrs. Jellaby -- so many of Charles Dickens' great grotesques lurk in memory with the clarity of caricatures. They seem made not just for the page but for the stage and screen. As the great popular novelist of his or any age, Dickens has always been filched by other media. And as a social reformer who, as George Orwell wrote, "succeeded in attacking everybody and antagonizing nobody," Dickens ^ invented outsize villains and situations applicable to almost any taste or decade. The endless Broadway and movie adaptations of Dickens stories testify to the vitality...
Defense Secretary Fidel Ramos, 60, has been one of the more discreet members of President Corazon Aquino's fractious Cabinet. Ever since Aquino came to power in February 1986, Ramos has defended her government against a succession of coup attempts. But lately, the popular politician has set Manila abuzz with some calculated innuendos. Talking to the press about his loyalty to the faltering President, he said ambiguously, "I am loyal to the constitution and the presidency. There's nothing personal about it." Ramos cautioned government officials not to use the military as a "tool of the executive branch...