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Word: preservationism (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Now it gets serious. With less than two weeks to go before the mid-term election, the preliminary sparring is over, and the candidates are trading their heavy punches. The prize is a big one: preservation or destruction of the conservative coalition that has enabled President Ronald Reagan to put...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Facing the Jobs Issue | 10/25/1982 | See Source »

Begin too seemed to look on himself as a man of destiny, cast in a biblical role as one charged with the future of God's chosen people. A student of the Bible, he preferred to use biblical names for places and referred frequently to God's messages to Moses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Keeping Faith | 10/11/1982 | See Source »

Film makers are already considering alternatives. Kubrick thinks "the ideal solution, extremely simple to do, would be for theatrical films once again to be shot in the original format that was the standard before CinemaScope." Director Martin Scorsese is launching a film-preservation committee that will attempt to ensure, among...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: The Shapes of Things That Were | 8/30/1982 | See Source »

Indeed, Interior Secretary James Watt, 44, has lost none of that astringent seriousness of his Wyoming boyhood. Even more, he still seems powered by youth's missionary energy, the sense of absolute righteousness that maturity usually softens. "It is really very simple," Watt says of his really very complex...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Always Right and Ready to Fight | 8/23/1982 | See Source »

In the conservation vs. development debate, the impact of today's policies will not be fully apparent for decades. It is that very uncertainty that has led Interior policymakers to err on the side of preservation and caution. Because Watt's radical course carries with it the risk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Always Right and Ready to Fight | 8/23/1982 | See Source »

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