Word: behinds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that Moscow might be more likely to allow Poland, Hungary and other countries to evolve toward democracy and free markets, perhaps even to associate themselves with the European Community, if NATO promises not to lure them out of the Warsaw Pact and perhaps desists from covert intelligence operations behind the Iron Curtain...
...failing to invite any of its representatives to the press conference at which the plan was announced. He went on to castigate the administration of Mayor Marion Barry, saying it "has failed to serve its citizens." Finally, he disclosed a set of measures that may put more dealers behind bars but is likely to do little to curb rampant drug use. Local police will get help from 82 federal agents. A 500-bed detention facility will be built in the District and more beds will be available in a federal prison in Maryland. Drug treatment will gain only 300 beds...
...time famine. All the promises of limitless leisure relied on America's retaining its blinding lead in the world's markets and unfolding prosperity at home. No one quite bargained for the Middle-Class Squeeze, what Paula Rayman, a sociologist at Wellesley College's Stone Center, calls "falling behind while getting ahead." The prices of houses have soared, inflation erodes paychecks, wages are stagnant, and medical and tuition costs continue to skyrocket. So now it can take two paychecks to fund what many imagined was a middle-class life. "The American Dream is very much intact," says Rayman...
...Behind every successful drug syndicate lies a complex mechanism for recycling bundles of tainted cash into respectable assets. But until two years ago, when Los Angeles narcotics officers seized three Zurich-bound suitcases stuffed with $2 million in currency, there was little hard evidence to implicate the venerable granite-walled banks of Switzerland in such schemes. Since then Swiss banks have been chastened by the disclosure that their accounts were used in a billion-dollar money-laundering operation. The resulting political scandal, in which the Justice Minister was forced to resign, ranks as the worst in modern Swiss history...
Reforming the system could take a very long time. More immediately, Takeshita is eager just to get the Recruit scandal behind him. For one thing, the Diet's opposition forces are holding hostage the nation's budget, which should have been in place April 1. They refuse to debate it until the L.D.P. agrees to allow Nakasone to testify under oath about his role in the Recruit affair. For another, Takeshita must set a date for elections to the Diet's upper house by Aug. 13, and in the poisonous atmosphere created by Recruit, the L.D.P.'s chances of winning...