Word: expression
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Washington similarly blames the Europeans for not giving stronger support on Iran, but many Europeans regard the botched raid on Tehran as symbolic of U.S. decline. Says Jean-Francois Revel, editor of L 'Express and long an admirer of the U.S.: "We Europeans, along with the rest of the world, heard the bell of U.S. military supremacy toll in Iran...
...time when Carter's human rights policy still urges the Soviet Union to give its political dissidents the freedom to leave that country, it would seem ironic for the U.S. to prosecute a former Attorney General for exercising his right to travel abroad and express his opinions, however unpopular they might be at home...
...subject matter) are in close contact with the party's propaganda department and with government bureaus. Yet Afanasyev denies that everything in the paper is dictated by apparatchiks. Says he: "In reality, we do the majority of our stories ourselves. Our commentators [the equivalent of U.S. columnists] often express their own point of view. As a whole, of course, it coincides with the view of the party, but shadings could be different...
...sometimes be flouted by those with power. In Guangdong province, for example, one commune party secretary's wife gave birth to a fifthchild-three more than the maximum allowed. When the overly fertile wife and her husband were both elevated to higher ranks, local townspeople were prompted to express their envy. Cadres' lives, they complained, are filled with "double happiness-a growing family and promotion...
...comply they tend to feel like spindling, folding and mutilating all the forms. Paperwork wastes an enormous amount of teaching time. In Atlanta, for example, fourth-and fifth-grade teachers must evaluate their students on 60 separate skills. The children must be rated on everything from whether they can express "written ideas clearly" to whether they can apply "scarcity, opportunity cost and resource allocation to local, national and global situations...