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Word: sloganeer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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This explains why Zionists molded themselves according to the slogan "The nation without a land--back to its homeland without a population." Therefore they were welcomed by the prominent Arab leader Emir Faisal, King of Iraq, who signed a cooperation treaty in 1919 with Chaim Weizman, who later became the first president of Israel...

Author: By Nissan Degani, | Title: Palestinians and Zionism: Searching for a Homeland | 2/28/1978 | See Source »

...toothache, see a dentist; if it's a pain in your taxes, come to me." With that crude but compelling slogan, Mogens Glistrup, Denmark's premier tax-dodge artist and maverick politician, not only made himself a millionaire but also built the country's second largest party, which now holds 26 of the 179 seats in parliament. Last week, after a 3½-year trial, a Copenhagen court found him guilty on a host of charges involving fraud and tax evasion and directed him to pay $880,000 in fines and back taxes. Glistrup's chief...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DENMARK: Taxation on Trial | 2/27/1978 | See Source »

...people with a common language, customs and culture should "naturally" form a nation-state. That conviction has been nourished by a sudden, popular expansion of French pride, in which Quebec became, if not a political state, most certainly a state of mind. It is summarized in a provincial-government slogan: "De plus en plus en Québec, c 'est en français que ça se passe " (More and more in Quebec, it's in French that things are happening). Quebec has sprouted dozens of novelists, playwrights and chansonniers who sing their culture's praises?and bewail their unhappy history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Secession v. Survival | 2/13/1978 | See Source »

...answer is a difficult one, as is drawing a distinction between Brown's "era of limits" and the basic philosophy of limitation put forth by Carter in his State of the Union speech. Equally perplexing is a consideration of whether Carter's campaign slogan "Why Not the Best?" applies to all of us in this society or just to him--just his best? Perhaps some of this would be clarified in a 1980 Carter-Brown slugfest...

Author: By Steven R. Valentine, | Title: A Look Toward 1980 | 2/9/1978 | See Source »

...Knowing the median verbal aptitude of our students, I'm sure they will coin a slogan befitting the significance of the occasion," Horner said yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Centennial Contest | 1/13/1978 | See Source »

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