Word: self
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...kidding. When even the urbane Robert Dole contrasts his plebeian Kansas roots with the preppie background of the front runner, George Bush, a du Pont of Delaware hasn't got a chance. What skeptics do not understand is that, in his own mind, Pete du Pont is a self-made man, one who rebelled against his family tradition by going to law school and then into politics...
...these days. What is missing in the new English sensibility, but not deeply missed, is a sentimentalized view of the misfortunate and the class animus that have energized English movies of the past 40 years. The new radicalism is psychological, not political, and it is often expressed as cheeky self-sufficiency...
...undergirds church and state separation. In March, Federal Judge W. Brevard Hand ruled that 44 history, social studies and home economics books used throughout the state violated the establishment clause by promoting what he designated a religion, secular humanism. It teaches, he said, "that salvation is through one's self rather than through a deity...
...strongest military allies, have delayed oil shipments to the country because Pyongyang has been slow to pay its bills. Western observers also feel that North Korea's plight will never improve so long as the Kim regime holds to its doctrine of Juche, an ideology of extreme self-reliance that basically rejects cooperation with foreigners. Juche is closely associated with Kim himself, who has ruled the country since...
Chances for an arms deal get a boost from offers by the U. S. and West Germany. -- He may be worth $7 million, but g. o. p. Candidate Pierre Samuel du Pont IV says he is a self- made man. -- Three federal agencies are investigating Panamanian Despot Manuel Noriega. -- In Louisiana, an accountant is executed for a brutal murder...