Because once upon a time there was just one evil empire and it was named Microsoft.
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Fortunately, in the end, the Evil Empire and even the Soviet Union itself came a-cropper.
W. Bush, Mr. Scowcroft writes, It was my sense that the Evil Empire rhetoric had been excessive.
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When the Gipper defeated the Evil Empire, it was time for something new: investments and tax law.
"There is only one Evil Empire in baseball and it is the New York Yankees, " the judges wrote.
In the past, former President Regan called Russia the 'Evil Empire, ' but still pursued a dialogue with Moscow.
Assange, the strange recluse, peaks ones interest as some Lex Luthor who runs an evil empire from a subterranean lair.
"But we disagree with the opinion, because we don't think "Evil Empire" exclusively refers to the Yankees anymore, " he said.
It also knew that that permanent peaceful coexistence between the Land of the Free and the Evil Empire was not possible.
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In this capacity, she played a key role in developing and implementing the strategy that would eventually take down the Evil Empire.
By destabilizing the Evil Empire, we dealt with the cause of the Cold War not its symptoms and we won.
The final straw for the Evil Empire was the Strategic Defense Initiative.
"In short, the record shows that there is only one Evil Empire in baseball and it is the New York Yankees, " wrote the judges.
Some conservative Republicans have identified China as a new "evil empire, " succeeding the former Soviet Union as the glue for the party's foreign policy.
Even though Mikhail Gorbachev pushed glasnost and perestroika in the Soviet Union, what President Reagan had called the Evil Empire still loomed over Europe.
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More significantly, Nancy encouraged her husband, who had once famously referred to the Soviet Union as an "evil empire, " to begin a dialogue with Soviet leaders.
The thaw led to a number of agreements to reduce nuclear tensions, and the "evil empire" disintegrated within two years after they left the White House.
The Warsaw uprising of 1944, one of the greatest catastrophes in Polish history, gets a much better press than Poland's role in destroying the evil empire.
The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, however, hardened Muslim attitudes towards the Evil Empire, and legions of young fighters streamed to Central Asia to defend the faith.
In 1980 the rise of Solidarity--a mass movement led by a shipyard electrician, Lech Walesa (later, free Poland's first president)--posed a mortal threat to the Evil Empire.
Imagine a 1980s Europe where CND had triumphed, with left-wing governments in Britain and Germany scrapping NATO, surrendering to Kremlin pressure and propping up the evil empire.
An Evil Empire does not fall in a day.
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Judge Clark was responsible for coordinating the creation and implementation of the key National Security Decision Directives that achieved the roll-back and ultimately the unraveling of the the Evil Empire.
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It was of course the steadfastness of the president, the pope, and the prime minister which brought down that wall and destroyed the evil empire without a shot being fired.
Many American leaders were responsible for bringing down the "evil empire"--another Reagan phrase--but the Gipper gets the credit largely because he did not accept the right of totalitarianism to exist.
Another one of my heroes, Ronald Reagan, saw and described the Soviet Union as "the evil empire, " while world opinion accepted it as inevitable and even belittled Ronald Reagan's intelligence.
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Moreover, they are full of hope that, like President Reagan's "evil empire" speech, President Bush's "axis of evil" speech will eventually lead to the collapse of Kim Jong Il's brutal regime.
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