Word: subjection
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Walter Lippmann and the American Century by Ronald Steel (1980). The "and" in the title is crucial. For biographer Steel illuminates not only the life of his subject, perhaps this century's most illustrious American journalist, but the events he reported and witnessed, on and off the record, from World War I through the agonies of Viet...
...runoff contest narrowed the 21-candidate field to Collor and a gritty dark-horse opponent, Luis Inacio Lula da Silva, a union leader and former industrial lathe operator who heads the leftist Workers' Party. Lula pounded away at populist themes -- he warned Collor that his landholdings would be subject to agrarian reform -- and outpointed the young conservative in the first of two televised debates. Toward the campaign's close, Collor took the low road, airing campaign spots that featured the married Lula's former lover, but the two continued to run neck and neck. Only...
...dwarfing the current, suddenly fashionable concern over the reunification of Germany. The U.S. may have won the cold war against the Soviet Union, but it has gone a long way toward losing the trade and technology war with Japan. Meanwhile, the environment, while also newly fashionable as a subject of political rhetoric, is not being treated by policymakers, legislators and citizens with anything like the seriousness and urgency it deserves...