Word: superiors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...after a few day's stay, both women are exasperated with the dull, sheltered existence of the British colony. Then neighbors seem uniformly stuffy and priggish, smug and superior toward "the darker peoples" and lacking any interest in India's exotic culture. The British Club offers polo in the afternoon and musical comedies in the evening. Tea and cucumber sandwiches are served while a sweating Indian band in garish Western uniforms plays "God Save the King...
...teen-age American heroes and heroines take to the Colorado hills to form a guerrilla band. The Americans become the Viet Cong, the little guys, the underdogs fighting for their own land. The Soviets become the oppressive great power (the Americans in Viet Nam), the occupiers with superior forces and sinister helicopter gunships. Thus the guilt belongs with the Soviets, and an odd kind of subliminal absolution descends upon the American viewing audience...
Further complicating the equation are domestic political perceptions. Seeking the White House in 1980, Ronald Reagan warned of a "widening gap" being opened by the Soviets in the nuclear competition and vowed that he would help the U.S. regain a "superior defensive capability." After taking office, he declared flatly that "on balance the Soviet Union does have a definite margin of superiority." Nearing the end of his first four years, Reagan told the United Nations, "America has repaired its strength...
That is for the record. Privately, U.N. Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick has told friends worriedly that the tension between Shultz, her nominal superior, and Weinberger has become "palpable." A Pentagon insider is blunter. Their dislike, says he, "is only thinly disguised when they meet publicly...
Cambridge scored a major victory in its fight to stop nerve gas testing when a state Superior Court judge struck down a claim by the Arthur D. Little company that its work for the Department of Defense took precedence over local regulations...