Word: easterners
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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PROFESSORS of Soviet and Eastern European Studies used to live the easy life. Day after day, they sat in their cushy university offices and waited for communist leaders to speak to the press...
...longer. Now, Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev announces major policy initiatives to the press on a daily, rather than a quintannual, basis. Eastern European nations are stumbling over each other to declare their independence--witness the recent resignation of the entire East German Politburo. At this torrid pace, the Communist Bloc will soon generate more headlines than the Jane Pauley-Today Show feud...
...other words, these professors won't be meeting with students this semester; we'll just have to understand the massive changes in Eastern Europe by ourselves. As a first step towards this noble goal of self-education, I have compiled a diagnostic current events quiz...
...course, when franchises move, there's no need to disrupt the delicate balance of division "rivalries" by forcing the teams to move into their geographically-appropriate division, right? I mean, there's nothing wrong with Phoenix or Indianapolis contending for Eastern Division crowns, right...
Hunting outfitters and stockmen scuff their cowboy boots in the dirt, unconvinced, as Askins talks. Some of them like to draw a line between Eastern ecobabblers, who puff wolves as gallant symbols of wildness, and true Westerners, who know them as cruel and cowardly and who can be relied on to "shoot, shovel and shut up," as the brag goes in the cowboy bars. But, Brad Little, a stockman from Emmett, Idaho, concedes, "It's not so much wolves we're afraid of, it's wolf managers." Exactly. The wolves themselves, though they are sure to range beyond park boundaries...