Word: synonymous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...here in the Western hemisphere, our own government persists in believing in Soviet aggression. in Central America. Using "Marxism" as a synonym for evil, we justify our policies as attempts to root out the pernicious seeds of Communism...
...with no smaller an appetite for success. Did Olivier make a landmark film of Henry V when he played in and directed it in 1944? Then the new Olivier would do it again -- bloodier and maybe better -- in hopes of luring the unlettered moviegoer for whom Shakespeare is a synonym for Sominex...
...healthy, efficient yuppies, who just might be able to fit a child into their Filofax schedules? Or the chain-smoking unmarrieds of the underclass, with lives of noisy desperation awaiting them like so many episodes of Married . . . With Children? In a society where childless can still be a near synonym for lifeless, are the "wrong" people having too many kids? Are there any right parents...
Slovenia (pop. 2.1 million), one of the six republics and two autonomous provinces that make up Yugoslavia, provided a reminder last week of why the word Balkanization is a synonym for divisiveness. Meeting in the capital of Ljubljana, the republic's parliament overwhelmingly passed a constitutional amendment allowing Slovenia to secede from the Yugoslav federation. Though a split is not imminent, the move was seen as insurance for the Slovenes against growing Serbian nationalism. Slovenia, which shares borders with Italy and Austria, boasts the nation's most prosperous economy. But it is dependent on raw materials from the rest...
...nearly a decade, Bush has been suppressing and denying his own centrist roots. In an interview with TIME on the eve of his Inauguration, Bush was asked whether he was a moderate. "No!" he snapped, reacting to the label as though it were a synonym for wimp. He protests too much, out of fear of the right. Helms & Co. sense that fear and mean to play...