Word: term
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...careful eye. We won't be carried away by faddism." Says Toufexis, a veteran medical writer who likes ballet, gymnastics, diving and bicycling: "I used to be obsessive, but now I enjoy exercise in moderation." Harbison, who is a runner, gymnast and tennis player, believes in the long-term benefits of sport. Says she: "I'm not out to beat other people. I just like to feel good. I couldn't live without being...
...they are to survive and those that will live or die regardless. The treatment most often called for by the victims of trading wars is protectionism. But as these examples make clear, unfair foreign practices are not always the real cause of distress, and trade barriers, while providing short-term relief, may in the long run be counterproductive...
...historic 49-state landslide that carried Ronald Reagan into a second term of office nearly a year ago prompted many analysts to speculate that the U.S. body politic was undergoing a fundamental realignment in party identification and loyalty. The President's strong showing among many groups traditionally associated with the Democrats, including blue-collar families and the young, seemed to indicate that Reagan might be forging a new Republican majority, much as Franklin D. Roosevelt had done for the Democrats in the early days of the New Deal. A survey conducted for TIME by Yankelovich, Skelly & White suggests that nothing...
Public doubts over the government's credibility further darkened the Socialists' prospects in legislative elections scheduled for next March. Even before the Greenpeace debacle, the conservative opposition had been expected to gain a majority in the National Assembly. Political observers last week were wondering whether Mitterrand, whose term does not end until 1988, would be so weakened after the elections that he would be unable to govern effectively in "cohabitation" with the conservative parties. There was speculation that he might be forced out of office before the end of his term. Mitterrand, for his part, issued a terse declaration...
...that teary night last November when, with old friends, he toasted "the last campaign" that the big one still lay ahead. That is so because the Soviet Union in its clumsy but inexorable way found that it was living in the "global village." That is Marshall McLuhan's term for a world so saturated with media that any significant act by anyone, anywhere, good or bad, is seen, reported and gossiped about. The Soviets stumbled from behind the Iron Curtain to face the cameras when they were clobbered on the world's tubes after bombing Afghan villages, blasting the Korean...