Word: abell
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Their father regards Nintendo as a symbol of the struggle that Hispanics have with the Anglo world. "I still believe we are Mexican-American people," Abel says. "When John David and Chris and some of the other kids play the Nintendo games, it is to be competitors with the Anglo people by having what they have...
When the elder Abel was growing up, he and his eight siblings picked cotton until the harvest ended each autumn. The elementary schools they went to were segregated. John David has always attended integrated schools and plays on integrated teams with blacks, Anglos and other Hispanics. "I have friends from different races -- blacks, whites, Mexicans," says John David...
Some economists believe most service companies, including fast-food chains and hotels, will be forced to raise wages over the next few years. Says Abel Feinstein, an economist at the Michigan Employment Security Commission: "There is no shortage of people to fill these service-sector jobs. If you increase wages and improve the working conditions, you won't have a shortage anymore...
...however, that ultimate Kremlin status symbol of privilege and power will soon be a memory for thousands of bureaucrats. The Soviet Council of Ministers last week ordered the government's automobile fleet slashed by 40% in Moscow and 20% elsewhere in the country beginning July 1. Says Soviet Economist Abel Aganbegyan: "This is a way to pursue social justice. Politicians must expect to lose their privileges...
...series of seminars held sometimes in the Central Committee offices, sometimes in a dacha outside Moscow. The sessions started with problems of agriculture but quickly developed into freewheeling discussions of what was wrong with the economy in general and how it might be fixed. Among the participants were Economist Abel Aganbegyan, who had been urging decentralization and a wider role for market incentives since the mid-1960s, and Tatyana Zaslavskaya, a leading sociologist. Zaslavskaya recalls one encounter with Gorbachev: "I sat next to him. It is incredible what power and drive emanate from him. One feels as if it were...