Word: correctives
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Economics Professor Gertrude Schroeder of the University of Virginia estimates that the Soviets are now working on their 14th set of "reforms" since 1965. Says she: "These aren't reforms as much as endless changes in their planning procedures. The real trouble is rooted in the system. To correct their problems, they must decentralize the economy." Decentralizing the economy, though, would mean dispersing political power, and the Kremlin is hardly eager for that. In addition, the vast Soviet bureaucracy has a vested interest in resisting economic reforms...
...return to Kabul. Amin carried out the agreement in spirit, if not to the letter: Taraki stepped straight from the presidency to his grave. Moscow was willing to turn a blind eye to that. It was only weeks, however, before the smooth-talking Amin made the KGB argument seem correct. Amin did not honor specific promises made to the Soviet Union, he complained about the KGB's activities in Afghanistan, and he wanted Soviet officials who had had the "effrontery" to advise him recalled. Moreover, things in Afghanistan were looking blacker and blacker. Terrible reports were coming...
...remarks, for example, that Mr. Kenyatta "says the liberal civil rights establishment--and he counts [Julius] Chambers and [Jack] Greenberg among its members--is pushing busing policies on Whites and Blacks that neither of them want." First, it is incorrect that most adult Blacks oppose busing, but it is correct that most Whites do. A Gallup survey in 1980 found 82 percent of Whites opposed to busing, but 67 percent of Blacks favored busing. But data on Whites who experienced busing show a more differentiated situation. In a 1979 survey of White parents, whose children had been bused for integration...
...percent of the population, own 86 percent of the land and exclude Blacks from voting and most public places. What is less obvious at first glance is that it takes a reasonably sound economy to maintain repression at home and oppression abroad. The IMI money will indeed help Pretoria correct its payment deficit That in turn will allow the white minority to "keep Blacks in their place" and continue a massive arms build-up that will insure dominance over Namibia...
There may be a deeper reason for the relative decline of slang. Standard English is losing prestige and even legitimacy. Therefore, deviations from the "correct" also lose some of their force. Slang forfeits a little of its renegade quality, its outlaw savor. If slang is no longer a kind of sin, it cannot be as much fun as it once...