Word: popularized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bush's transition will also be different, according to Brauer, because as the only sitting vice president to be promoted since Martin Van Buren in 1836, he must build his own image after being in the shadow of a popular president for eight years...
...from 25 to six. Although "people liked our policies," Williams says, "we tried to fight with two leaders [and two parties]." The Conservative Party swept to a majority in Parliament in 1987, and against a divided opposition, Thatcher won reelection to Prime Minister with only 43 percent of the popular vote...
George Habash, leader of the radical Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, contended that too many concessions were being offered with no guaranteed response from the United States and Israel...
Ironically, Chamberlain's story, which is a true one, is infinitely more bizarre, and in the end more emotionally devastating, than Dunlap's, which is adapted from a popular novel. It was precisely because what occurred to Chamberlain one night in 1980 was so improbably eerie, so Stephen Kingish really, that she found herself convicted of murder. With her husband Michael (Sam Neill), her two sons and her nine-week-old baby Azaria, she was in a crowded campsite in the Australian outback. She put the infant to bed in a tent, returned to the barbecue. Shortly, she heard Azaria...
With four decades and 2.2 million converts behind him -- and with no successor in sight -- the century' s most popular Protestant is still working his civilized sawdust trail. Next stop: London...