Word: sloganeer
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Bush continues to pay lip service to this canard out of fear of Republican right-wingers who claim to be "pro-life." In its implications for the slums and villages of the Third World, that slogan disguises a policy that is pro- death. Bush, who hopes that his standing as an international leader will help him next year, says his position has "evolved" after much "soul- searching." Soul-selling is more like...
...World War II and the only time in the war that defenders beat back an invasion fleet. In reporting this small triumph to Pearl Harbor, according to a story that may be apocryphal, one of Devereux's men added a bit of bravado that became a popular propaganda slogan: "Send us more Japs...
...leaders in the outlying republics are an odd mix. Some were dissidents under the old regime; others were minions of Moscow who embraced nationalism only when it was expedient. When the abortive coup in August accelerated the disintegration of the union, sovereignty went from a slogan to a realistic, negotiable objective. Provincial politicians looked in the mirror and saw statesmen and strategists. They started having second thoughts about whether sending local Soviet missile crews packing was a good idea after all. Nuclear storage facilities and launch sites suddenly looked less like imperial outposts and more like valuable assets that might...
...philosophy behind the slogan is that if we remember what happened to Jews during the Holocaust, no people will have to suffer like that in the future. This philosophy could be especially helpful in the newly independent Soviet republics, where ethnic intolerance has been lingering since the time of the czars...
...Bush's initiatives could have come earlier, could have been bolder, could have been more comprehensive, could have been less angled toward preserving American advantages. But they could not have been much less Utopian. BAN THE BOMB is simple, easily grasped and easily chanted. Largely for those reasons the slogan is also no guide for policy. BAN LAND-BASED MIRVs is an obscure tongue twister. But it states an important, achievable aim, and it is as worthy an objective as it is a clunker of a slogan...