Word: thrust
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Gorbachev era, they will be astounded by the abrupt changes in the forms of political life that occurred during the punctuated evolution of the period. Mute and spineless holdovers from pre-glasnost days slithered into obscurity and were replaced by frothing creatures distinguished by wide-open mouths and fists thrust upward. Two new autobiographies, published this month in vivid counterpoint, provide a revealing glimpse of this great Soviet transition...
...most of the articles don't even aim for rational persuasion--fallacious or not. The basic thrust of the magazine is not rigorous debate, but frightened reaction against "moral decay and degradation...
...competition from Japanese "transplant" factories in the U.S. A more insidious element was Chrysler's own success selling K-cars, minivans and Jeeps in the 1980s, which brought the company huge profits. "We became a little too rich and fat doing things that were not germane to the basic thrust of the company, which is to become the low-cost, highest-quality producer," says Iacocca...
...Israel has been treated as if this were not true. The thrust of the reporting and, in particular, the commentary is that Israel has failed dismally to meet Western standards, that it has been particularly barbaric in its treatment of the Palestinian uprising. No other country is repeatedly subjected to Nazi analogies. In no other country is the death or deportation of a single rioter the subject (as it was for the first year of the intifadeh, before it became a media bore) of front-page news, of emergency Security Council meetings, of full-page ads in the New York...
...collapse of communism in Eastern Europe could mean a reduced U.S. defense budget. And it means that America must spend more to support the thrust toward liberalization. To get around the money crunch, Senate Republican leader Robert Dole last week proposed cutting 5% from the funds allotted to foreign- aid recipients...