Word: offing
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Recognizing the pragmatic bent of Japan's increasingly affluent younger voters, even the tiny Communist Party -which went from four to 14 seats -downplayed dogma and emphasized inflation, air pollution and the need for more dobuita (gutter lids) in the streets. The Socialists, by comparison, trotted out unfamiliar, underfinanced...
The sorry Socialists, in fact, were the only losers. They dropped an astonishing 44 of their 134 Diet seats. "We were resigned to losing," said Saburo Eda, the party's secretary-general, "but this-this is not just a defeat, it is a completely crushing defeat!"
The Liberal Democrats, to be sure, had a lot going for them. In the past ten years, Japan's astounding boomu has quadrupled the gross national product (to $167 billion), choked Tokyo streets with Toyotas and filled workers' homes with TV sets and gadgetry. Sato's November...
Dogmatic Purity. Japan's Socialists never followed the lead of Britain's Labor Party and Germany's Social Democrats. Once, both European parties exerted little appeal to anyone but blue-collar workers. Eventually, both discarded doctrinaire Marxism and set out to build national followings. The main characteristic...
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