Word: sentimentalized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Several hundred uninvited guests demonstrated outside Lowell House, disrupting the etiquette of the afternoon and temporarily preventing the South African from excusing himself. Critics rightly protested that the closed event contributed nothing to the open exchange of ideas. The reception inflamed sentiment for divestment and discredited its hosts--along with a few activists...
...problems of debtor countries have been compounded by sluggish growth rates that cripple their ability to repay loans. The troubled nations must boost export sales to raise more money, but that has grown increasingly difficult. One hindrance has been the rise of protectionist sentiment in the industrial world. Another is the falling price of many Third World exports, ranging from coffee to copper and tin. Mexico, which depends on oil for most of its export income, has suffered a 13.5% drop in petroleum sales this year...
...ruling Parti Quebecois, provincial Justice Minister Pierre-Marc Johnson, 39, has been the front runner to succeed him. Last week, in a provincewide party election, Johnson won 60% of the vote and the helm of the party that swept to power in 1976 on a surge of sentiment for separating Quebec from the rest of Canada. He ascends to the provincial premiership that his father Daniel held from 1966 until his death...
...Black music prime movers--emphasis on movers--Parliament and Funkadelic. You would think everyone would be able to get into his thang. But complaints have been bruited that his sound is too obnoxiously the apotheosis of libido. This is false. Simply put, if the blow-it-out-yer-ass sentiment that fuelled his Atomic Dog hit of three years ago--"Bow wow wow yipee yow yipee yow"--didn't drive you from your seat and into a fury of rear-wagging, then you weren't listening to it loud enough. This isn't music to write poetry...
Echoing Pickens's sentiment, Jacobs said takeover bids enhance the economy by weeding out weakness and forcing managers to rethink their businesses...