Word: popularized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...show's realism aside, stressed-out students welcome the chance to socialize with their fellows. Together they hiss at judges' decisions, shout criticisms in unison--"They can't do that" is a popular cry--and sometimes, during commercial breaks, even discuss legal issues raised by the show...
...Smokeout yesterday appeared to be as popular as those in previous years, said Kathleen M. Kniepmann, assistant to the director of UHS. She said UHS does not have figures indicating how many students and faculty have participated in the annual event...
...budget bill, Bush abandoned the idea last week. The President's backdown could provide the basis for a compromise that would undo $16 billion in across-the-board spending cutbacks that went into effect last month. If no agreement can be reached, $8.1 billion will be slashed from popular programs such as Medicare and college loans...
...President is riding high in the polls as he presides over peace and prosperity, yet he is hearing mounting criticism for his timid response to the stunning changes taking place overseas. The other President, though wildly popular around the world, is in serious trouble at home, threatened with civil war in the south of his country, a secessionist movement in the north and a collapsing economy that heralds a winter of fuel shortages and food riots. For all these differences -- and because of them -- George Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev both stand to gain from a feet-up-on-the-table...
Talk about timing. With presidential elections just two weeks away, Silvio Santos, 58, one of Brazil's most popular television variety-show hosts, last week proclaimed himself a candidate. The startling announcement might have seemed laughable -- were Santos' challenge not so serious to the three leading contenders. If none of the candidates gets an absolute majority, the two leading candidates go forward from the first round of balloting on Nov. 15 to the runoff vote on Dec. 17. Within two days of Santos' announcement, newspaper polls showed the upstart candidate alternately in first and second place -- meaning...