Word: sentimentalizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...became too powerful. But after political parties were legalized two years ago, the Islamic Salvation Front won an overwhelming majority in the June 1990 municipal elections, the first multiparty vote since Algeria gained independence from France in 1962. Then the gulf war sparked a fresh burst of anti-Western sentiment. If the fundamentalists ever come to power, they vow to outlaw alcohol, segregate the sexes and impose Shari'a, creating a society dramatically different from the socialist state built more than three decades ago by nationalist revolutionaries...
Some of this burgeoning antiscience sentiment springs from the well-meaning but naive "back to nature" wing of the environmental movement, some from skillful manipulation by demagogues and modern-day Luddites. And some is misdirected; science is often blamed for the misdeeds of industry and government...
...aging cyclists a smoother ride. Last year Specialized introduced Air Lock, a self-sealing tire that eliminates fear of flats. Still trying to grow fast enough to stay ahead of the big boys, pioneer Sinyard drives his troops with the company slogan "Innovate or Die!" That's a fitting sentiment in an industry whose forebears included Wilbur and Orville Wright...
This phenomenon is really "antiforeign sentiment without foreigners," says Liselotte Funcke, former Federal Commissioner for the Integration of Foreign Workers. In the five states that used to make up East Germany, foreigners account for only 1% of the population. Half of the 60,000 Vietnamese who once worked there have gone home, as have the 8,000 Cubans and all but 3,000 of the 15,000 Mozambicans...
Tonelson's piece is an extreme example of a widespread sentiment. The American labor movement is in a protectionist mood. So are many members of Congress. Local officials, bedeviled by deficits and cutbacks, fulminate at the idea of U.S. aid to the former evil empire. At a recent meeting of the National League of Cities, Sidney Barthelemy, the mayor of New Orleans, said, "The Federal Government needs to shift its priorities from continuing to assist and aid everybody outside America ((while)) ignoring the problems inside America...