Word: aspects
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...their booty to scrap dealers. While new red bricks cost about $450 per 1,000 on the retail market, dealers pay the thieves only $50. Since Detroit tears down 2,000 to 3,000 abandoned buildings a year, police are not terribly concerned about the thefts. The most troubling aspect of this new inner-city crime wave is the motive of most of the culprits: to get enough cash for another hit of crack. "Brick stealing is on the upswing, and it's directly tied to the price of the brick," says Charles H. Smith Jr., president of the Oakman...
Another unusual aspect of the University's work force is the impact of students on the worker-management relationship, Bozzotto says...
...economic system being brought, stumbling and blinking in amazement, into the light of a new era. In the tradition of Peter the Great, who opened up Russia to the West almost 300 years ago to rescue it from backwardness, Gorbachev is trying to transform, neither slowly nor surely, every aspect of his nation's political, economic and psychological life...
...answer again involves contradictions. Life is clearly far better these days: the fear that was the most oppressive aspect of daily existence has been replaced by a torrent of free expression, while experiments with market principles show faint signs of sparking economic success. Life is just as clearly no better at all: the shelves in the shops are more barren than when Gorbachev took office, the limited economic reforms serve mainly to reveal how hopelessly ossified the economy is, and the flirtation with freedom has frayed the seams binding the empire's diverse nationalities...
...industrial ministries, the most difficult aspect of restructuring will be to close down unprofitable factories. Although the law now allows bankruptcies, very few have taken place because bureaucrats are loath to reduce their domain and fearful of the unrest that would be caused by throwing employees out of work. Moscow prefers instead to merge unsuccessful enterprises into stronger ones...