Word: farness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...far from the Lun Feng factory, on the main road to Guangzhou, is an example of how economic freedom can energize a population. Shops full of sofas, chairs and beds stretch as far as the eye can see. "Furniture Mile" began several years ago when a few local farmers decided that after meeting their government-mandated crop quotas, they would rather augment their income by making furniture than by growing more vegetables. Soon, farmers throughout the area followed suit. Today anyone with wheels stops to load as much furniture as he can carry, then resells his wares later in whatever...
When former Speaker of the House Thomas (Tip) O'Neill retired after more than 50 years in politics, he had only $2,900 in the bank. But today O'Neill is faring far better, not just because of his best-selling book, Man of the House, but also due to his status as a trendy spokesman. O'Neill has appeared in ads for American Express and Miller Lite beer, among others. In current TV commercials, he can be seen rising from an open suitcase on the bed of a Quality Inns International motel...
...MISERABLES. Tours often look tatty compared with the Broadway originals, but that's far from true of the glistening and passionate company now installed in Detroit. Notable among a solid cast are J. Mark McVey as Jean Valjean and the locally recruited children...
Peace talks have been known to founder on far less. As of now, the discussions are scheduled to begin Oct. 16 and to continue on a monthly basis, as proposed in Mexico City. Cristiani is heartened by this timetable. "What happened to Mr. Duarte was that he had isolated meetings with ((the F.M.L.N.))," he said. "If one of those meetings failed, that was it." Cristiani expressed a willingness to discuss the F.M.L.N.'s proposals for judicial and electoral reform. At the same time, he shot down key elements of the F.M.L.N.'s nine-point plan put forward in Mexico, most...
...Arms Control Association, may sound a bit exaggerated. But when Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze brought a letter from Mikhail Gorbachev to Washington last week, it had U.S. officials worried. What if it contained some bold proposals? That might force a curiously hesitant Administration to decide how far and how fast it wants to go toward nuclear-weapons agreements -- or even to make up its mind on what, if anything, it should do to help Gorbachev survive...