Word: detours
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...Berlin Wall toppled. Eastern Europe gained its freedom, and the Germanys united. Capitalists started selling Big Macs in Pushkin Square. Now come the failed coup, the dismantling of the Soviet Communist Party and the race toward independence and a market economy. While conceding that these events mark a "serious detour," Hall finds solace in this quote: "If current events are negative, then look long range...
...never a big stop on the U.S. eating circuit. Tourists ate fish, most often frozen. Frozen crab cakes. Frozen fried shrimp. Frozen Dover sole. For authenticity, there were boiled stone crabs, alligator for the hardy and lots of Key lime pie. In Guide Michelin terms, not worth a detour...
...meeting in the Kremlin, Mikhail Gorbachev assured me that his current turn toward the reactionaries is just a temporary detour. But the evidence is overwhelming that he is leading the U.S.S.R. toward the abyss. In the absence of radical reform, the Soviet Union will become an irrelevant and crippled empire -- a nuclear superpower with a Third World economy, unable to play a major role on the world stage. This is good news in one sense because it means a declining Soviet threat. But it is also bad news because, as I told Gorbachev in 1986 and again in our recent...
...reform is morally right. It is also very much in America's national interest. Ironically, it is in Gorbachev's interest as well. If we support the reformers, they will be better able to bring pressure to bear on Gorbachev to realign himself with them, to end his current detour and return the country to the road of reform...
...seven-lane bridge linking Seattle to its eastern suburbs across Lake Washington was closed twice after the collapse of an adjacent 50-year-old pontoon bridge. The 110,000 commuters depending on the link were forced to clog an alternate bridge or detour 30 miles. Property losses are expected to rise well above $100 million. Said Governor Booth Gardner: "My state is falling apart...