Word: waved
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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INSTEAD OF FACING these issues, America's political leadership has tried to resurrect nuclear power's image as the "wave of the future." The Reagan administration has taken the lead in this effort; indeed, energy secretary James B. Edwards once called opponents of nuclear power "subversive elements." And the Congress has so far seemed willing to go along as economic issues divert public attention from nuclear power...
While some sociologists fear the federal withdrawal could spur a renewed wave of migration of the needy from the South to Northern and Western states, where benefits are comparatively generous, Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young worries about even shorter flights. "If Alabama decides to be irresponsible," he says, "Atlanta will be flooded with poor people...
...White House lunch last week, guests at the President's table, including F.D.R.'s son Jimmy, ate off china from the Roosevelt years. In a deft tribute, Reagan recalled his first glimpse of F.D.R. "It was 1936, a campaign parade in Des Moines, Iowa. What a wave of affection and pride swept through the crowd." Reagan obliquely compared Roosevelt with himself; he praised the American ability to "sense when things have gone too far, when the time has come to make fundamental changes. Franklin Roosevelt was that kind of a person too." The President then led a toast...
...death marches--organized by Eichmann--which claimed tens of thousands of lives. And the Hungarian terrorists were no better than the Nazis; in some cases they were even worse. They roamed the streets of Budapest in packs, randomly terrorizing and executing Jews. The city had erupted in a frantic wave of violence--all of it directed against the Jews--and as the Russians advanced closer and closer to the city, German and Arrow Cross soldiers seemed only more bent on killing. Fortunately, Bierman avoids preaching and moralizing about the evils of Naziism, choosing instead to let these actions speak...
...band seems to appreciate the admiration they get from their number-one fan, Psycho. Burma's music isn't nearly as threatening as that of The Damned or Flipper or other stalwarts in the New Wave's big noise division. But she loves them all the same, like groupics have always loved bands, regardless of what's the latest on FM radio...