Word: valorization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have come to tolerate capitalism) has explained how it was necessary to incite fanatical hatred against the North Vietnamese in order "to unite our compatriots through the party, to bring our workers up to their highest level of productivity, and to make the yotheas (young soldiers) ardor and valor in combat even greater...
Immediately, he is lionized by a parade of advocates who relish the idea of a martyr's bearing witness to their pet creeds. A seedy intellectual, played with querulous pungency by John Heffernan, wants Senya to die for the valor of the intelligentsia, while a writer urges him to expire for the glory of art, and a faded beauty argues for the ideal of romantic love...
...positively melt the heart of Rep. John B. Anderson (R-Ill.). And so, by the time Rep. Barbara McClusky (D-Md.) introduces Kennedy, they are ready. The orchestra plays "Macnamara's Band," the blue-and-white placards begin to wave, and the "magnificent example of grace, courage and valor" strides out on stage...
SOCIAL SPENDING. Last year cuts in jobs and public housing programs set off wails of protest from both labor and liberals. The President this year decided that political wisdom was better than fiscal valor. No major social programs were reduced and several were increased. Federal funds for subsidized housing grew from $26.7 billion to $31.9 billion, and an additional $2 billion to combat youth unemployment was also proposed. Said one happy Housing and Urban Development official: "We did well, and I think that's what everyone is going to be saying...