Word: accountability
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pinch of the consumption tax most acutely. In the recent election, that issue galvanized them not only to throw their votes to the Socialists but also to enter the political arena in record numbers. Female candidates increased their numbers in the upper house from 23 to 33; they now account for 13% of the chamber's seats. Half of those elected were Socialists like Doi. The J.S.P. leader, however, downplayed her role. "It wasn't my popularity," Doi said. "I just happened to be a woman...
Texas is a state where men are men and good ole boys don't so much drive pickup trucks as aim them. And they don't cotton to being thought of as sissies. Somehow, the state highway commission failed to take that into account when it announced that the license plates on Texas' 13.5 million vehicles would henceforth carry not only a border of -- ugh! -- baby blue but also a limp slogan, THE FRIENDSHIP STATE...
...week that it will have to spend $1.28 billion, or ten times as much as initial projections, to clean up the 11 million gal. of crude oil that the supertanker Exxon Valdez spewed into Alaska's Prince William Sound last March. The surprising estimate, which did not take into account potential penalties or lawsuit settlements, made the Alaskan disaster one of the most expensive industrial accidents ever...
...want to miss any signals from the Soviet Union," Bush told TIME a few days ago, then added with unusual firmness, "I am not going to mishandle the Soviet account...
...Soviet account in this age is a contradiction of almost everything practiced by the eight Presidents who preceded Bush over the past 43 years. Ronald Reagan, with a certain grim humor, could tell how he had written notes to three Soviet leaders in a row; before the letters reached them, "they all died." Bush not only wants Gorbachev to stay healthy, he may literally have offered up an Episcopal prayer or two for his success. Further, Bush has put his note writing to Gorbachev on a routine basis instead of limiting it to moments of crisis. The letters contain subtle...