Word: righted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Minogue in 1963, "are, in some degree or other, liberal. It is only the very cynical, the unassailably religious, or the consistently nostalgic who have remained unaffected." A lot fewer of us think of ourselves as liberal since Minogue wrote those words. But the different impulses that pushed us right -- the hard head, the stern faith, the backward glance -- remain in play and remain different. Each must find its own way through the sieve of events -- a conservative sentiment, come to think...
Though long-haul passenger trains in the U.S. have been equipped with toilets since before the Civil War, they went on dumping effluent right onto the tracks until states passed laws in recent years forcing them to clean up their act. Amtrak, however, was given a federal exemption from such regulations. The practice has irked railway workers and bystanders, who have sometimes fallen afoul of the raw waste from speeding trains...
...frustration of ultra-rightists in the Salvadoran army and government who are considering a campaign of terror to suppress the insurgents. Between 1980 and 1985, confirmed killings by death squads linked to the military or National Guard liquidated 0.3% of El Salvador's population, and many far-right members of the President's ARENA party would like to resume that strategy. The rightists have reportedly stockpiled enough weapons and ammunition to pursue a terror campaign for several months after a cutoff...
...Czechoslovak Communist Party branded the invasion as wrong. Asked at a Milan press conference what he thought about that, Gorbachev tiptoed toward an apology, though without going all the way. The Prague Spring was "an acceptable movement for democracy, renewal and humanization of society," he said. "It was right then and is right...
...group that includes both tabloids and the so-called qualities, like the Times and the Guardian. It was formulated, admits Arthur Davidson, legal director of Associated Newspapers, because of a belief that "legislation of some sort would come about." The British press, which lacks the protection of a constitutional right to free expression, is already being constrained by a law, passed in May, that sharply restricts what it can print on national-security matters. And a government-appointed group is to report next year on what additional measures are needed to protect the British public's right to privacy...