Word: eagers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...about it, Babbit is now biding his time, preparing to make a run for the Oval Office the next time he gets a chance. His speech at the Kennedy School was full of goodnatured self-effacing humor about his poor showing in 1988. Babbit told the story about and eager supporter who informed the former Arizona governor that the only problem was that by the time she knew who he was, he was out of the race...
Despite what the election indicated, there is significant resistance to Gorbachev's reforms. While managers and workers realize that the present system has its flaws, they are not eager to take a leap into the unknown. Many are satisfied with a social contract in which, as Soviets cynically joke, "they pretend to pay us, and we pretend to work." The probability, nevertheless, is that Gorbachev will become more, not less, impatient. "Shortages exist because we are moving too slowly, halting and stepping off the road too often," says Abel Aganbegyan, an economist who helped shape Gorbachev's ideas...
...Eager to rejoin the international psychiatric establishment, the Soviets have spared little effort to show their good faith. In the past two years, the government has released more than 100 dissidents from hospitals and carried out several legal and procedural reforms. The new regulations provide that mental patients or their relatives can appeal an involuntary hospitalization in court. Moreover, control of special psychiatric hospitals for the criminally insane has been shifted from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, which oversees the police, to the Ministry of Health. And in a break with the Soviets' monolithic tradition, a few articles discussing psychoanalysis...
Osadchuk's eager clientele largely represents a new class of Soviet consumer: the nouveau riche, of which she is a proud member. Better yet, call them yuccies -- young upwardly mobile Communists. Osadchuk pays herself a monthly salary of 700 rubles, or $1,120, about three times the average Soviet salary and enough for her family to live very comfortably. Says she: "We buy anything we want." Thanks to the co-op movement, employee profit sharing and other budding forms of entrepreneurship, many Soviets are suddenly earning enough money to do more than just scrape by. They are enjoying a taste...
...Bush Administration seems eager to play down the importance of Gorbachev himself. It is only prudent, of course, to hedge against the possibility of Gorbachev's demise. But the Administration risks going too far in assuming, imprudently, that favorable trends in Soviet domestic and foreign policy are irreversible -- no matter who the General Secretary is -- and not far enough in taking advantage of the immediate opportunities that Gorbachev himself represents. For example, his willingness to trim Soviet military muscle might give the U.S. a welcome chance to rethink some of its own more expensive superweapons...