Word: politicized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Cheney's announcement was greeted by much of the U.S. foreign policy establishment with cynicism. The Defense Secretary, it was said, had not really had a change of heart; the cuts had more to do with the requirements of the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings deficit-reduction law than with the opportunities...
The death of Lebanon's body politic, so often declared, may yet prove to have been (slightly) exaggerated. Last week, meeting in an abandoned air base at Qlaiaat in northern Lebanon, 58 aging Deputies of the country's parliament elected Rene Moawad, 64, a moderate Maronite Christian lawyer who enjoys...
Perhaps without Mobuto's iron hand and corrupt body politic, Zaire would have fragmented long ago. Perhaps the blood Mobuto has shed is less than the blood that would have spilled were it not for his autocratic rule.
But Robinson is after more than black humor. He wants us to see this tormented body as a metaphor for a tormented body politic; the wildly successful British advertising business may be to the Thatcherian age what imperialism was to the Victorian. But here Robinson sets down his hot satirical...
Puzzled outsiders and furious supporters of law and order often felt they were witness to a heist of the body politic. The immediate causes of upheaval were frequently petty. At Columbia, a protest over the university's affiliation with a war-research institute and its planned encroachment on a ghetto...