Word: closers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Gorbachev has not always been a champion of the kind of people power on display in Tiananmen Square. Early in his tenure as General Secretary, his understanding of democracy was closer to Deng's concept of limited managerial and entrepreneurial liberalization. However, the Soviet leader grew to realize that as long as the Communist Party maintains its grip on all aspects of society, significant reform is nearly impossible. The party is too conservative, too resistant to change. At the time of the 1917 Revolution, the party was the agent of cataclysmic change -- but on behalf of a conspiratorial elite...
...NTSB issued a report finding that the FAA bore partial responsibility for last year's accident in which the top of an Aloha Airlines Boeing 737 tore apart in midair, killing a flight attendant. The FAA allegedly neglected to monitor carefully Aloha's maintenance procedures and failed to enforce closer inspections in the airline industry even after stress cracks had been found in older planes...
...most serious difficulties for the U.S. are likely to arise in Japan and Korea. If the Sino-Soviet thaw endures, Moscow and Beijing will promote closer North-South relations on the Korean peninsula with an eye toward reducing the 40,000 U.S. troops stationed in South Korea. That's good, but not if it leads to intimidation of the South's burgeoning democracy. Japan, unsure about its new global political role, will almost certainly be next to receive the full brunt of the Gorbachev charm offensive. That's bad only if it dilutes the Washington-Tokyo relationship and forces...
Then we heard the words that would set us free: "Dark-skin Blacks." At the same time, we reached out, instinctively, and showed him our nearly-red Black (a former girlfriend once told me I was closer to orange than Black) arms. I had to suppress a laugh, as I wondered if whites are ever identified as light-skin and dark-skin whites...
...Seung's assumptions shows most how little he, and I am sure many others, understand my viewpoint. "Perhaps Hsia has never been called 'chink' and felt shame." No, I have been subjected to racial slurs; though I never felt ashamed by them. My emotions ran closer to anger or condescension. I am not ashamed of being a minority. Nor am I ashamed of my opinion of minority organizations. The two statements are not contradictory...