Word: popularized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...drive as elemental as hunger, thirst and sex. But he takes the argument a radical step further by proposing that society would be best served if it accepted the inevitability of intoxication and launched an all-out effort to invent less damaging, nonaddictive substitutes for alcohol and the popular illicit drugs...
...confident veneer is vintage Clancy. "I don't think Tom believes there's anything on this planet that he can't do," says Carroll. But even if he never gets to test his talents in government, Clancy has already performed a national service of sorts: more than any recent popular novelist he has sought to explain the military and its moral code to civilians. Such a voice was needed, for Viet Nam had created a barrier of estrangement between America's warrior class and the nation it serves. Tom Clancy's novels may be romanticized, but they have helped bring...
...want a new agreement," said Aigar Irgens, an editor at Atmoda, the newspaper of the Latvian Popular Front. "We want complete independence...
...They are trying to present to the world that we in the Soviet Union now have a federation built on the will of the people," said Alvydas Juozaitis of the Lithuanian popular front, Sajudis. That is impossible as long as the Red Army "occupies" the republic, he said...
...party's call for a new law banning "nationalist and chauvinist organizations" could be targeted at pro-secession groups such as the Party of National Independence in Georgia, Russian strikers protesting a new language law in Estonia, or the mass-membership Estonian Popular Front, which supported the language...