Word: preventable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...raise important questions about the tactics of some anti-abortionists. He wrote that an anti-abortion group calling themselves "Operation Rescue" had used "blacklists and smear campaigns" against women who spoke out in favor of abortion. And he noted that antiabortionists have repeatedly firebombed clinics in an attempt to prevent women from obtaining abortions...
...soon would be off on a different road, or so one imagined. It would be another four years before the U.S. withdrew from Viet Nam, and another seven years before the North Vietnamese armies would sweep south and accomplish the result that American power had sought so long to prevent. During 1968, another 16,000 Americans died in the war. By the time the polished black granite of the Viet Nam Memorial was installed in Washington in 1982 -- an act of national reconciliation that took years -- more than 58,000 names of the dead had to be inscribed...
...spring. Later, campus conservatives complained that they were not fairly represented on a student dean search committee which reserved two seats for members of the minority Coalition for Diversity. After a bitter campaign, the student body roundly rejected a proposal by the conservative Students' Alliance for Fairness to prevent seats in future ad hoc committees from being reserved for specific groups...
...traditional business cycle. While they acknowledge that slumps can still strike certain weak industries, they regard broad downturns as largely a thing of the past. Says Edward Yardeni, chief economist for Prudential-Bache Securities: "The economy is now so huge, so diverse and resilient that adjustments take place that prevent economy-wide recessions...
...though they happened in the real world and epigrammatic statements sound as though they were said by real people. One of many moments that make War and Peace television at its best: a 1946 United Nations disarmament conference is seen considering a U.S. plan for international controls that would prevent the Soviet Union from developing its own bomb. The proposal comes to a vote. It needs unanimous endorsement. One delegate after another says "Yes," until first the Polish, then the Soviet, delegate is heard from. A 37-year-old Andrei Gromyko says, softly and in English, "Abstain." The plan...