Word: guilt
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Most Overleveraged Spin-Off Donald Trump's securities were revealed to be guilt-edged when he went public with an illicit dividend, model Marla Maples. Ivana's projections for a divorce settlement plummeted when the Donald's teetering real estate empire had to give credit where credit was due. Principle was lacking all round. Interest dwindled...
...earnestness was much in evidence in 1990, with the return of the spirit of do-goodism. The environment became the last best cause, the ultimate guilt- free issue. In 1990 it seemed that everything had to be either biodegradable or cholesterol free. The return, once again, of '60s fashions on Seventh Avenue and '60s rhetoric on college campuses betokened a revival of activism...
...religious and intellectual circles, debates about the past are as vigorous as discussions about the future. At a conference last month, Dutch Reformed Church theologian Willie Jonker declared apartheid a sin and confessed his guilt as well as that of the church and "the Afrikaner people as a whole." Although his declaration caused an uproar, his statements echoed a historic resolution adopted two weeks earlier at a church synod. Former President P.W. Botha briefly emerged from seclusion to express his anger. "The Afrikaners, my people, were not oppressors," he insisted. But progressive Afrikaners are advocating that the government take...
Germans acted out of a mixture of motives: simple generosity, gratitude to Gorbachev, even a touch of guilt -- German CARE, a descendant of the postwar American relief program, addressed its shipments to cities like Kiev and Smolensk that had suffered most from Hitler's aggression during World War II. They also are worried that unless the food crisis is brought under control, Western Europe will face a flood of Soviet refugees. Nations along the Soviet border from Scandinavia to Czechoslovakia are bracing for that possibility. Fearing instability, Poland last week even decided to beef up its troop deployments along...
...Much and Janet Woititz's Adult Children of Alcoholics primed readers for Beattie's message, which has a special resonance for women who often feel like powerless victims, nurturing everyone but themselves. Beattie offers a list of more than 200 codependent tendencies. The sufferers "feel anxiety, pity and guilt when other people have a problem" and "overcommit themselves." In the book portion titled "The Basics of Self-Care," Beattie suggests that her readers should "feel your own feelings" and "have a love affair with yourself...