Word: exception
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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First came Mikhail Gorbachev. In his speech to the United Nations last month, he promised to change practically everything about the Soviet Union except its name (and, presumably, its leader). Asked at a press conference the next day whether he believed Gorbachev was sincere in trying to remake the Soviet Union into a less threatening country, Ronald Reagan replied, "Yes, I do." Coming from the longtime and unabashed cold warrior, in the midst of his own swan song, those three words were almost as significant as Gorbachev's hour-long oration...
President-elect Bush's Flexible Freeze Plan to reduce the budget deficit does not give economists much reassurance. The program calls for the total elimination of the budget deficit by 1993 by freezing all Government spending after adjustment for inflation except for Social Security and interest payments. But many economists believe the plan relies on overly optimistic assumptions that the U.S. economy will grow more than 3% a year through 1993 while inflation declines to about 2%. Sinai considers the Flexible Freeze Plan "unrealistic and unworkable...
Little has changed as yet in this impoverished land. Around Aden, a busy port where several thousand ships call each year, swarm laborers clad in sarongs and tribal headgear. The nation comes close to feeding itself but its searing bone-dry desert climate offers little room for agricultural expansion. Except for a 1950s Chinese-built textile mill and an old refinery, there is little manufacturing. Much of the country is pitifully underemployed...
...most popular pastimes is chewing kat, small leaves from a mildly narcotic and addictive plant. Strict laws forbid the sale except on two-day weekends of the so-called Yemeni vodka, which has a disastrous effect on productivity. Women are free from most Islamic restrictions, able to choose the chador or the dress. In fact, the country adheres little to either Muslim or Marxist strictures. Liquor is sold, and the Communist Party numbers only 20,000 members...
...Crimson will publish every Monday, Wednesday and Friday during Reading Period and exams except for legal holidays...