Word: experimental
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Evidently Mikhail Gorbachev is willing to tolerate capitalist-style "contradictions" in his attempt to fuel economic reform with a dose of democracy. In any case, the heavy Soviet lid has been lifted, and the voices from inside the box -- above all, the voices of ever resilient Russian intellectualism -- are being...
To become anywhere near competitive in a global market, Soviet factories desperately need high-technology plants and equipment. The government recognizes this, but has gone about fixing the problem in its old-fashioned way of calling all the shots from Moscow. For example, the government has ordered far more computers...
Although Harvard severed ties to the nine all-male final clubs in 1984, Epps has said the College entered into an agreement with the club to keep the garden plot whole. Epps has called that agreement an "experiment."
The experiment took place without publicity last June, and was only recently described at a medical meeting in Paris. The operation was performed when the child, David, was a 30-week-old fetus. So far, the results have been remarkable. Though he has been confined since birth to a germ...
Eastern Europe's unpredictable volatility also has implications for the West. If Communism does shuffle slowly offstage as a failed experiment in Poland or Hungary, there is no guarantee it will be replaced by democracy. Without substantial progress toward economic recovery, the odds are high that social unrest and political...