Word: rearguard
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...believe you can put together a realistic package without including defense," said Senate Budget Committee Chairman Pete Domenici. Insisted the newly elected Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole: "Substantial reductions should be forthcoming from the defense budget." From within the Administration, Treasury Secretary Donald Regan led a rearguard action. "It would be very difficult to pass the budget without having defense as part of the package," he said publicly...
...they hope to limit many auto imports with domestic-content legislation in Congress, which would require that all cars sold in this country contain a specified minimum percentage of U.S.-made parts. By opposing the movement of manufacturing functions to lower-wage countries, the union is fighting a rearguard action. It is the same battle that has already been lost by workers in the textile, toy, photographic, radio and television, shoe and other industries. The efforts of the autoworkers do not seem to have much greater chance of success...
...Cuba," says Paquito D'Rivera, "jazz is a four-letter word." So, at the age of 32, he came to New York. Jazz may be spelled the same way in America, may even be locked into a perpetual cultural rearguard action, but at least it does not carry all kinds of touchy political ramifications. "Jazz music isn't forbidden in Cuba," D'Rivera elaborates, "but if you do that kind of music, they will put an eye on you. You're going to be like pro-American or something, you know." He also recalls some advice...
Malcolm X thought the raucous nature of the Birmingham marchers had signaled the entrance of a new breed of Black into the civil rights movement, turning it into an all Black revolution. Malcolm X was referring to the tendency of King's rearguard demonstrators, and Black spectators along the route of the Birmingham marchers to attack the police by using violence themselves. Malcolm X was more correct in his version of what happened in Birmingham. His sequence is the framework one needs to explain what happened there with respect to white and Black reaction and to establish the casual connection...
...while, automen fought a rearguard action against Washington's attempts to make cars cleaner and more fuel thrifty. For at least ten years Detroit opposed the Clean Air Act, which reduced auto pollution. It also struggled long and hard against the 1975 Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards that required American automakers to have a fleet fuel efficiency of 18 m.p.g. in 1978 and 27.5 m.p.g. in 1985. As a result, after Iranian oil was cut off in December 1978 and American consumers began demanding smaller cars, Detroit had little to offer...