Word: free
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...could test Gorbachev's mettle and get to know the Soviet leader personally, just as he had befriended hundreds of other foreign leaders in his career. After the Soviets opted for Malta, Bush told aides, "I want a Camp David atmosphere on that ship." To work his magic free of prying eyes and ears, he has ordered reporters to stay far from the U.S. cruiser Belknap and the Soviet cruiser Slava. "He wants to be able to get up from the table and go for a walk with Gorbachev around the ship if he wants to," said a senior official...
...technology being placed into our culture?" Rifkin asks. "Is the proper role of the public only to applaud the claims of scientists? Is that our only role? Or is our role to be informed and engaged in the process? My impression is that the scientific establishment has had a free ride until recently. Even with the mistakes that we might make, we're opening up the process of debate around some of the most important things in our lives. We're opening up science and technology to scrutiny beyond the scientific establishment. If I do nothing else, that...
...desperate situation is sparking an increasingly heated debate within the Soviet Union about the direction of perestroika. On the one hand are liberals, who think the country must move faster toward a free-market economy; on the other are conservatives, who want any changes to occur so gradually that consumers will be cushioned from price increases and unemployment. Gorbachev is caught in the middle. The measured tempo he has chosen for perestroika has caused only economic disruption and hardship, at least in the short...
...Phase out arbitrary prices. As long as bureaucrats set prices, the economy will experience severe distortions. Nothing short of true free-market prices will produce the efficiency and the supply response needed to stabilize the economy...
...Gorbachev fears the consequences of a turn toward a free-market system. As he told a group of Soviet economists, "I know only one thing, that after two weeks such a market would bring the whole nation out on the streets and sweep out any government, even one declaring devotion to the people." But Gorbachev's great strength has been to take the Soviet system and its people to destinations unimagined only a few years ago. The time has come for Gorbachev to accept that there is no middle ground. As his Polish neighbors say these days, "You cannot cross...