Word: ruggedized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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But the U.S., sticking by its tradition of rugged individualism, held out. Theodore Roosevelt ran for President in 1912 on a Progressive Party platform calling for a national system of social insurance. He lost, and the proposal was not an issue again in presidential elections until 1932, when another Roosevelt...
With $400 million already spent in building a plant, Colony was going to be the most serious attempt ever made in the decades-old dream of wresting energy from northwestern Colorado's rugged Piceance Basin, which contains possibly 1.2 trillion bbl. of oil. The fuel is trapped in a...
Argentina's response to the South Georgia defeat was to deny that it had taken place. The junta in Buenos Aires maintained that scatterings of Argentine troops were carrying on the battle from specially prepared hideouts in the rugged recesses of the island. That version of events was speedily...
THE PLAY's title provides a key to the symbolism behind the fraternal conflict. Lee represents the true West, the land of cowboys and Indians and rugged individualism--which, according to Austin, has been entirely replaced by freeways and high-rises and Hollywood operatives. Austin cannot understand Kimmer's enthusiasm...
In one of the war's harshest engagements to date, 1,500 government soldiers swarmed around the rugged, inactive volcano of Guazapa last week, about 15 miles from the country's capital of San Salvador. They pounded the area with heavy artillery, while support aircraft rained down phosphorous...