Word: actualizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...barricades, comrades! The capitalists at Parker Brothers are launching an attack on the motherland -- a Russian-language version of Monopoly. Although negotiations for the board game's actual introduction into the Soviet Union are still under way, Monopoliia will be unveiled on Oct. 17 at the World Monopoly Championship in London. Instead of Boardwalk, players will land on Arbat, a pedestrian mall in Moscow where Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev strolled during the May summit. All references to stocks, which are not sold in the Soviet Union, have been changed to bonds. But the familiar tokens...
...whether it wouldn't be easier to move step by step, first coping with one problem and then another. "Radical change," he said, is needed "in the party, in the state, in agriculture, in industry, in personnel policy and most of all in people's mentality." In assessing the actual progress of reform, Gorbachev can be brutally realistic. At a meeting with Soviet media leaders the previous week, he reported bleakly, "At the moment, we are going slowly, we are losing time. And that means we are losing...
...Lenders are recognizing that the $1.2 trillion debt load carried by the developing nations has stifled growth. No longer can the problem be papered over by stretching out payments, granting new loans and hoping for the best. Many bankers at least grudgingly support some form of debt relief -- an actual reduction in the amount of money owed. Still, the debate over how to provide that relief | has only begun. U.S. Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady suggested continuing the policies of his predecessor James Baker, who called for reforms of debtor economies as well as new loans from creditors. But many...
Surveys like this one are exercises in arbitrariness. The rankings are based greatly on the whims and impressions of the deans who are polled, with little regard for the actual capacity of the schools to do what universities are supposed to do. How does the dean of a school across the country become intimately acquainted with the Harvard experience, if she is spending her time to improve her own campus...
...example, Samuels points out that while his South Carolina research was helpful, he "could have done the actual work at Widener...