Word: latter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...right stands together on social issues, it risks falling together on the environment. Though conservatives and conservation are linguistically related words, most of the former have given the latter scant thought. For a brief moment ten years ago, we geared up to argue that one of the reasons why nuclear power is desirable is that it is safer and cleaner than coal, gas and oil. We were right. But Three Mile Island made the issue politically moot, and we've barely been heard from since. We can save elephants more effectively than liberals can. We also have to show that...
What brought on the rebellion? Aquino may have restored the country's democratic institutions, but she has allowed the 147,500-man-strong military to continue along the dangerous course it took during the latter years of the Marcos regime. As young colonels, radical rightists and Marcos loyalists intermittently mounted coups against her, Aquino was forced to depend on military men like Ramos and De Villa to make sure that the armed forces did not entirely turn on her. Unfortunately, the management policies of these top officers were forged during the dictatorship, when promotions were decided almost wholly...
...upon the past by refusing to acknowledge a new historical reality, one in which the Palestinians are willing to live in a state alongside Israel and Israel can negotiate from a position of power. The Palestinian National Council has declared the former; numerous Israeli military figures have affirmed the latter. If these are the conditions that Israel has long awaited, why is there no peace...
...have no control over the larger direction of the organization--such as whether to admit women--but Harvard has much less control over the groups in question. Harvard's policy may be against discrimination, but if the national organization's is not, the group must be loyal to the latter or risk losing its affiliation...
...there were only two choices: hold the third national election in less than a year, or adopt the parliamentary course of last resort, a government of national unity. Last week Greece's three warring political groups swallowed hard and chose the latter. In the new government that was . sworn in last week, conservatives, socialists and Communists are for the first time ever steering the ship of state in unison. The new coalition, which is led by Prime Minister Xenophon Zolotas, 85, a former governor of the Bank of Greece, will remain in office until new elections in April...