Word: decays
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ebullient secretary of housing and urban development and probably the most formidable Republican alive. An also-ran in the 1988 Presidential election, Kemp champions what Republicans need most--and Democrats fear most--in the emerging post-Cold War era: a compassionate, yet conservative solution to poverty and urban decay...
...supposed to make liberalism safe for Democrats again, has instead made them boring. If a liberal is someone with his feet firmly planted in the air, a neo-liberal is the deadweight tethering him to the ground. Problems liberals were accused of throwing money at -- like poverty, homelessness, urban decay and the underclass -- have given way to two-hour symposiums on "New Strategies for Economic Security: Developing America's Human Capital...
...most of the articles don't even aim for rational persuasion--fallacious or not. The basic thrust of the magazine is not rigorous debate, but frightened reaction against "moral decay and degradation...
...these critics are taking their cue from the almost apocalyptic way in which many Soviets are talking about their own troubles. Perestroika, said Vladimir Brovikov, a delegate to the Communist Party plenum in February, "for five years has brought us into crisis, anarchy and economic decay." Still, it is worth remembering that dissatisfaction in the Soviet Union, while real and legitimate, is wired into two new amplifiers: glasnost (outspoken letters to the editor of Pravda) and demokratizatsiya (outspoken delegates to the Supreme Soviet...
Thus it is possible that the Baltic leaders racing so anxiously to independence are hurrying unnecessarily. Gorbachev could have entirely different crackdowns in mind as he gathers in his new powers to declare emergencies and maintains them "to defend the interests and security of the U.S.S.R." It is the decay of the center rather than the demands of the periphery that is most threatening to his reforms. His biggest immediate problem is likely to be the millions of Soviet citizens who are sick of communism, angry at the government, in despair at their living conditions -- and have no plans...