Word: reverting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...revelations ("Jack and Bobby and Marilyn"). The serious lawmaker in Ted Kennedy would turn now and then into a drunken, overage, frat-house boor, the statesman into a party animal, the romance of the Kennedys into a smelly, toxic mess. The family patriarch, the oldest surviving Kennedy male, would revert to fat, sloppy baby...
...inflicted on Iraq the mother of all defeats, Bush left no doubt, as he said Friday, that in his own mind, there would be no "definitive end" to the war so long as Saddam was "still there." For the next phase of the campaign, Bush needed only to revert to the advice that the doves were offering him before he ordered the bombers into action on Jan. 16: Give sanctions a chance...
...recent years, however, such problems as ozone depletion and deforestation have shown that mankind is threatening the systems that support its economic and social well-being. Americans pay lip service to this reality but tend to revert to old thinking when environmental reform threatens either jobs or life-styles. People thus need to undergo a fundamental shift in perspective, acknowledging their dependence on a healthy biosphere. Seeing earth as a whole erases the illusion that humanity is separate from the natural order. For that reason alone, The Home Planet (Addison-Wesley; $19.95), an elegant compilation of photos taken during American...
...remains strong that the current talks about talks will end and real negotiations begin by early 1991. Yet in the absence of a new constitutional order, De Klerk will have to face the white electorate again in 1994. He may thus feel increasingly pressured by party hard-liners to revert to the ways of Pretoria's repressive past if violence bogs down the process of reconciliation and seriously threatens white security...
...headlines were a little too bold," said Laura J. Ferguson, managing editor of the Gazette. "We wanted something more conservative, so we decided to revert to the old format...