Word: unpopular
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wonderful place to roost. I never thought about a career because I thought the movement was going to be my life. When it crashed and burned, I was devastated. By '69 there were close to 100,000 members. The more unpopular the war became, the more unpopular the movement became. The movement was losing content and skidding...
...only inches out of Ronald Reagan's shadow. Even when he detached himself from the White House's feckless policy of trying to cajole Manuel Noriega out of Panama two weeks ago, the Vice President was hesitant and late. Meanwhile, he continues to be bruised by his association with unpopular Administration actions like last week's veto of the trade bill, which contains a provision requiring employers to give 60 days' notice before laying off workers...
Most Soviet citizens are gratified to see their sons and brothers leave an unpopular war, which officials in Moscow acknowledged last week had cost the lives of as many as 15,000 Soviet soldiers. Although they have tried to put a good face on it in public, conservative Soviet leaders must regard the withdrawal from Afghanistan as the worst setback for the Soviet army since World War II. In the political wars Mikhail Gorbachev is fighting in Moscow these days, a successful summit with Ronald Reagan just might help distract attention from the ignominy of the Afghan defeat...
...life, when Capote had become a talk-show Scheherazade, his high voice and bizarre costumes were no more than comic effects that served to keep Middle America awake till the next commercial. But at the beginning of his career, it took nerve to fly his unpopular flag...
...Soviet leader is ending his nation' s unpopular foreign adventure, but his ambitious political and economic reforms still face challenges at home. -- A landmark U. S.- Soviet arms treaty is now about 90% complete. In an exclusive report, TIME' s Strobe Talbott tells the inside story of negotiations to scrap some of the most dangerous weapons on earth...