Word: fetters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Corruption did exist under Gorbachev; after Gorbachev it blossomed with new fervor. Oppressive poverty did exist under Gorbachev; after Gorbachev it reached the level of starvation. Under Gorbachev the system of residence permits did fetter the population; after Gorbachev hundreds upon hundreds of thousands lost their property and the roofs over their heads and set off across the country seeking refuge from people as angry and hungry as they were...
...unlicensed" merchandise, nor was there any effort to check for health violations in the Hibachis framed in blue tapestries on an rickety table. No one was getting rich, they were just getting to the next show and feeding and clothing fellow humans in the process. Unrestrained capitalism, without fetter or regulation turns ugly when loosed upon industrial production...
...Fetter, a columnist from the Boston Globe, compared Saddam Hussein to the German Kaiser and to Hitler, saying that just as the United States had intervened in the two world wars even though its territory had not been directly threatened, it should also stand in defense of Kuwait today...
...Stanford University Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Jean H. Fetter after hearing comments Harvard admissions officers wrote on application folders of Asian-American students. The comments were drawn from an Education Department report obtained by The Crimson under the Freedom of Information...