Word: wings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...judgment. But he also begins to appear as much more a product of his time and place than many care to admit. If he frequently exploited the country's most base instincts, he also reflected legitimate resentments. The silent majority he mobilized survived him, eventually evolving into the right-wing populist movement that anointed Ronald Reagan...
...Senior wing Lisa Cutone hit the ball out to her linemate Sharon Landau, who stopped the ball for Co-Captain Char Joslin. Joslin whaled the ball towards the upper left corner of the net over Bruin goalie Sarah Lamont for what seemed to be a sure goal. But Bruin senior back Laura Sullivan materialized from nowhere, stopping the ball with her hand to give the Crimson a penalty stroke...
...Washington Times, for instance, recycled a story from MediaWatch, a right-wing newsletter. MediaWatch's conviction is that the national press corps is a left-wing cabal bent on discrediting conservatives. In that spirit, it took TIME (and me) to task for coverage of a controversy involving Republican National Committee chairman Lee Atwater. MediaWatch is of course entitled to its ideology. But in parroting the MediaWatch article as fact -- including the erroneous assertion that no TIME reporter had sought Atwater's side of the story -- the Washington Times neglected to check with the target of the criticism. The paper dutifully...
...year ago, opponents of Reagan's presidency said that Reagan's legacy would be the burgeoning federal budget deficit, regression on civil rights, the right-wing tilt of federal courts and our deteriorating environment--in short, the destruction of America's future...
...believed, correctly, that U.S. participation in the coup attempt would discredit the Panamanian opposition and anger Latin American countries in which the U.S. has more important interests. The President, however, has sent confusing signals by using macho rhetoric about U.S. military options. Such tough talk, designed to quiet right-wing critics, raised expectations in both the U.S. and Panama of American intervention...