Word: popularized
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Biggest Brewhaha Long the target of unions and minority-rights groups, Coors Brewing Co. acquired a new enemy with its popular promo for Coors Light, featuring a haunted house and the slogan "It Isn't Halloween Without the Silver Bullet." The National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence described the ad's subliminal appeal to underage drinkers as "chilling...
...military-industrial complex and ethnic Russians living as minorities in various republics. As the Congress of People's Deputies meeting approached, Soyuz and conservatives generally seemed to be gaining influence with a frustrated Gorbachev. That should have been no surprise. The reformists' strength had always resided in an evanescent popular mood that has swung from euphoria to near despair as political breakdown has been mirrored in economic chaos and shortages of everything. The conservatives, in contrast, command the hard, physical tools of power: troops, tanks and vertushki, the direct telephone lines to the central authorities that are the lifeline...
Gorbachev, frustrated over the refusal of many republics to accept his draft of a new treaty of union, asserted that he would submit it to a popular referendum within each republic; the Baltic republics promptly declared that they would not let such a referendum be held on their turf. Most ominous, Gorbachev announced that he might introduce a "state of emergency or presidential rule" in areas where the "situation becomes especially tense and there is a serious threat to the state and to people's well-being." That might have been the trigger for Shevardnadze's resignation...
...says Foreign Minister Shevardnadze, who helped liquidate the cold war, in a fiery resignation. And the hard right is in fact well organized, while democrats splinter. Worse, popular support seems to be swinging toward a crackdown. -- The U.S. deputy commander of American forces in the gulf says his troops won't be ready for war on Jan. 15 -- hardly the message Bush wants Saddam Hussein to hear. -- Is Germany fated to be haunted by revelations about former spies...
...very significant moment for me was in 1987, when in a referendum Poles rejected proposals for painful but necessary economic reforms. I realized then that without popular support we would be unable to follow the communist route any further...