Word: fermentations
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...There has been a lot of ferment recently about the issue of copyright,” Hansen said...
...indeed, quite the opposite, as the Pub is able (perhaps as a deserved compensation for audaciously defying the authorities) to exact prices on drinks that exceed what one can purchase retail in a corner store by many hundred percent. But in another important sense, every drop of mind-numbing ferment that passes into the hands of the Pub’s thirsty customers is absolutely gratis—free of the pesky “I’m gonna need to see some...
...Union: more open, more concerned with the welfare of its citizens and less with the spread of its ideology and system abroad." What did spread, at home and abroad, was a fever of democratic reform. Soviet satellite states gained independence. The Berlin Wall fell. The cold war faded. The ferment grew chaotic and eventually swept away Gorbachev and the Soviet Union. But for surviving so long and so boldly and imaginatively as "the patron of change," Gorbachev was again TIME's choice in 1989, this time as the Person of the Decade...
...sorry" in connection with an incident he believes really resulted from China's illegitimate molesting of a U.S. plane in international airspace, and he wants to sound a warning to the Chinese that their conduct was unacceptable to Washington. And that message also helps him manage any domestic political ferment over China on his right flank. But finding his balance on China policy would be a lot easier, of course, if he didn't face some tough calls of potentially epic consequences in the next two weeks...
...Washington has been watching all the ferment and doesn't know whether to laugh or cry--or try to get in on the action. There was never much private industry in D.C. For years the biggest private employer was the Washington Post. Because of the relative scarcity of large private fortunes, there were very few big locally owned banks. Power and influence were the currency. Elected officials, lobbyists, lawyers and consultants lived and worked in the same neighborhoods, schmoozing over lunches and dinners and cigars at watering holes like Duke Ziebert's and country clubs like Burning Tree. What mattered...