Word: realm
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Senator in a minority party, hardly a national figure. The presidential aspirants who most openly court the Baby Boom voters--Democrat Gary Hart and Republican Jack Kemp--are 49 and 50 years old, respectively. It would not be surprising if a Baby Boom leader emerged from outside the political realm, but none pops to mind--even if Bruce Springsteen might carry the young blue collar vote...
...straightforward account. Boris Yletsin, a candidate-member of the Politburo, said reservoirs near the plant were contaminated and the area remained too radioactive for residents to return. In remarks to the West German television network ARD, Yletsin said of the accident, "The cause lies apparently in the subjective realm, in human error. We are undertaking measures to make sure that this doesn't happen again...
Students also say that the Signet's exclusive nature has pushed it closer into the realm of final clubs. "It's hard to defend the Signet against charges of elitism. We apply standards which are admittedly vague and which vary from election to election. Everyone who joins the Signet accepts this," Murphy says...
...members of the group are also refuseniks. To Yureii Medvedkov, the right to emigrate is one of a broad slate of human rights that are indivisible from peace activism. "To be a peace activist is a right," he insists. Refuseniks, by applying to leave have already crossed into a realm of dissent which sets them apart from ordinary Soviet citizens. While simply wanting to leave is not usually considered dissent in Western countries, a desire to leave is considered tantamount to treason in the Soviet Union. As a result refuseniks are in a difficult position. They are not usually dissent...
...most disturbing development that Drucker describes is the burgeoning "symbol" economy. By that he means the intangible realm composed of capital movements, foreign-exchange transactions and credit flows, which have ballooned enormously since the leading Western industrial nations decided to abandon the system of fixed exchange rates in 1971. Drucker warns that Washington's use of high interest rates to finance its budget deficit through foreign borrowing has caused a dangerous "politicization" of the symbol economy, a trend that he sees other countries starting to imitate in, for example, their selective manipulation of currency exchange rates...