Word: sloganeer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Baby (1968) was just a new member of the family. Old leftists -- communists and socialists -- responded to it, more often than not, with revulsion. In France the Communist Party did its best to isolate the young enragees. In China senior party hacks shuddered before a Cultural Revolution whose slogan was "Attack the Party headquarters!" In communist East Germany the Stasi agreed with its Western counterparts that student leader Rudi Dutschke was a "dangerous subversive...
...growing larger. The dispute has produced a sharp discrepancy between Perot's self-image as a mere servant of the volunteers and his need to impose discipline on a movement fueled by independence. "I'm Ross, you're the boss," he tells his followers. When they take that slogan literally, conflict occurs...
...family values" slogan Republicans used at their last convention does not really advance the cause of family. Speakers such as Patrick Buchanan, who has allegedly made anti-gay and anti-Semitic comments, and Pat Robertson,, who carries the flag of the religious right, deflected the real issues. "Family values" were perceived as a shallow ploy to appeal to voters. The phrase became detached from its original meaning and was associated instead with homophobia and bigotry...
...senior executive of the Big Three: "The Japanese are our biggest worry. They are going to do anything absolutely necessary to keep their golden market." Though Nissan demurs that its own nickel-cadmium model is not quite ready for prime time, it has already produced the first advertising slogan of the new electric age, describing its FEV concept car as "gentle to people, gentle to society, gentle to Earth...
...three countries surveyed, American physicians were least likely to recommend medicine as a career to qualified students, Blendon said. This contradicts the "usual slogan that if you have a national health care system, no one wants to go into medicine," he said...