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appeasement noun accommodation, adjustment, allayment, amends, assuagement, calming, conciliation, deadening, détente, dulcification, dulling, mitigation, mollification, pacification, placation, propitiation, reconcilement, reconciliation, salving, satisfaction, softening, soothing, submission, tranquilization See also: conciliation, mollification, reconciliation, satisfaction How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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That appeasement policy is the main reason Los Angeles has the worst public transit system of any big city in America - and probably in the world, for that matter. In the 1930s, Stanley Baldwin and Neville Chamberlain merely pursued to its logical conclusion the appeasement policy adopted the decade before. WHILE the Clinton administration was busy last week fine tuning its appeasement policy toward the Chinese dictatorship, Mickey Mouse was pursuing the exact opposite approach, one which the Clinton foreign policy folks might do well to learn from. |
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