Word: way
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...commentary, especially satirical commentary, is usually ink wasted. Eighty years ago that wasn't the case. At that time a political cartoonist could turn an election around. Before TV, before movies and radio, a drawing of a weasel with the Governor's name on his butt went a long way in a public's imagination. Our political power today is illusionary. A Johnny Carson monologue is today's real influence brokerage...
...this season, a new, young group of players who don't remember the glory days is preparing for a winning season. This team looks forward to a capturing a record eighth-straight Ivy championship, which was slightly cheapened by a Princeton/Yale/Harvard three-way tie last year...
Henry Grunwald, U.S. Ambassador to Austria (and former editor-in-chief of Time Inc.), who expressed his personal views, acknowledged that there would be "a great temptation for the Soviets and others to have a little repression on the way to free markets," a process he called "perestroika without glasnost." But Grunwald doubted even that would have the desired result. He pointed out that while some Asian economies -- Taiwan's and South Korea's, for example -- flourished under authoritarian regimes, much of Latin America's had not. Said he: "There must be a degree of democracy and freedom for people...
...lost to Soviet power for two generations." He suggested that the people of Eastern Europe had achieved "a spiritual dimension, of those who had to fight for 40 years against oppression" -- an attitude from which the West could learn. Eastern Europe's transformation, he said, "is not a one-way street...
...line during a meeting in Washington. "Look, pal," he said. "we support Mrs. Aquino. We don't care who you go to -- the Pentagon or the State Department or whoever -- the answer is the same." But the Vice President hasn't stopped trying. As the latest coup was under way, Laurel called it a display of democracy in action. Replied the U.S. State Department's deputy spokesman Richard Boucher: "We clearly do not view it that way...