Word: daringness
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Gorbachev's rejuvenating crusade raises the question of whether he can achieve durable change without provoking insurmountable opposition from party conservatives and fearful bureaucrats. After all, Nikita Khrushchev was swept from power 23 years ago for attempting reforms far less daring than Gorbachev's. More recently, when Deng Xiaoping's...
Suddenly Soviet television began broadcasting frank discussions of social and economic problems. Press articles appeared on such subjects as drug abuse and juvenile delinquency. The picture magazine Ogonyok and the multilanguage weekly Moscow News started printing hard-hitting stories about corrupt officials, inefficient factories and alienated youth. Ogonyok, for example...
Many investors are surprisingly daring at an early stage. Fairfax Randall, a Houston homemaker and sometime interior decorator, boosted her portfolio from $250,000 to $2 million in just three years by leveraging, or borrowing money to increase her stock-market wagers. But she ventured naively into risky stock options...
To this day it is difficult to pin down just which operations North became involved in. One reason is North's irrepressible flair for self-dramatization. In the days before he began taking the Fifth Amendment, he told innumerable stories about daring exploits that either were embellished or seem never...
Soviet space technology was without question the star of this show. Thousands lined up to walk through a replica of the Soviet space station Mir. The tour took them into an impressive 100-ft. space structure composed of the Soyuz vehicle that sends two-man crews into space, the cylindrical...