Word: ultra
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Your article correctly diagnoses ultra-modern technology as the primary cause of increasing medical-care costs. Yet as long as consumers demand the very best and consider anything less as malpractice, the situation will not change...
...view at least, the stability of the NATO alliance. In Latin America, U.S. support for Britain's unyielding stand on the Falkland Islands has enraged many nations that Washington would like to court. In Geneva this week, U.S. and Soviet negotiators will sit down to open an ultra-important round of new talks on reduction of strategic nuclear weapons. Moscow's leaders are already expressing heightened puzzlement as to what kind of American strategy they will face...
...rumbling thunder on the right. "We had only two seconds to enjoy Haig's firing," says Richard Viguerie, an archconservative political organizer. In fact, after Reagan's election, when it was thought that the choice for Secretary of State had come down to Haig and Shultz, Ultra-Conservative Brewer Joseph Coors and others mobilized a campaign for Haig, who was considered to be less of a "detentist...
...DIFFICULT to object to a hiring system based entirely on pursuit of excellence, and it is probably presumptuous to raise questions about a procedure that experienced scholars and administrators have long chosen to use. But any policy as extreme as Harvard's ultra-cautious array of reviews is bound to look as if it gives short shrift in one direction or another. Two apparent shortcomings of the way Harvard grants tenure emerge--one pragmatic and one philosophical...
...called leaders. Many other words can be handily tilted by shortening, by prefixes and suffixes, by the reduction of formal to familiar forms. The word politician, which may carry enough downbeat connotation for most tastes, can be given additional unsavoriness by truncation: pol. By prefacing liberal and conservative with ultra or arch, both labels can be saddled with suggestions of inflexible fanaticism. To speak of a pacifist or peacemaker as a peacenik is, through a single syllable, to smear someone with the suspicion that he has alien loyalties. The antifeminist who wishes for his (or her) prejudice to go piggyback...