Word: sentimentalism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...down. Panama's Foreign Ministry last week released a predictable statement condemning the "new attack" against Noriega and questioning the credibility of Blandon and the other witnesses. The same day, 200 anti-Noriega demonstrators in downtown Panama City called for the general's resignation. Yet with anti-U.S. sentiment never far from the surface in Panama, the indictment may actually inspire support for Noriega...
...treaty might still be revived. But first, he said, the U.S. has to increase the aid it provides to help fight Colombia's drug mafia from the current $15 million a year, which he called a "drop in the bucket." Low's remarks reflect a growing anti-U.S. sentiment among Colombians, who blame the violence on the American demand for cocaine. (Colombian drug lords supply 75% of the coke consumed...
Those are not the words of Jimmy ("the Greek") Snyder, the football speculator cashiered by CBS Sports for enunciating a virtually identical sentiment in a Martin Luther King Day interview. Rather they were spoken by black Olympic Gold Medalist Lee Evans, a militant protester against white racism during the 1960s. Evans was quoted in a 1971 SPORTS ILLUSTRATED article on the purported physiological differences between blacks and whites. In that story, among many other things, experts claimed that what Coach Al Campanis more recently declared was true: blacks are less buoyant. If there are significant genetic differences between blacks...
Polls for months have indicated that Bush and Dole have the Republican race to themselves, but the TIME survey shows that voter sentiment is hardly set in concrete. When asked if they felt certain that they would stick with their present first choice, just 29% of Republican voters nationwide said yes. Among ( Iowans, the figure was 34%. With two-thirds of Iowa Republicans harboring some doubt, the campaign's final three weeks should be as suspenseful as usual...
...healthy stock advances spurred by an unexpected rally of the dollar, which was bolstered by the intervention of central banks in the currency markets (see following story). For the week, the Dow was down 27.52 points. As usual, there was a logical, if contorted, economic explanation of why investor sentiment so abruptly turned bearish. The problem started when the Government announced that the U.S. unemployment rate had fallen from 5.9% in November to 5.8% in December, its lowest level since 1979. To most people, that sounds like good news, but nobody has ever accused Wall Streeters of thinking like most...