Word: freest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fiction is not history. Liberties are taken for dramatic effect; scenes must be arranged, dialogue concocted and interior monologues imagined. Rybakov's technique is no different from that of other popular novelists who incorporate historical figures into their books. Like most, he succeeds best when his imagination runs freest. A case in point: a scene in which Stalin's dentist, a competent though nervous practitioner, finds himself in the unenviable position of handling the bite that feeds...
While Costello's task is to keep the U.S. ahead, he must do so at a time of serious concern about the federal deficit and severe budget constraints. Carlucci, who last November succeeded Caspar Weinberger, the freest-spending Defense Secretary in U.S. history ($2.4 trillion in just under eight years), has ordered that planned Pentagon outlays in the fiscal 1989 budget now being prepared must be cut by $33 billion...
India's press is among the freest in the world, but it did not seem that way last week. In the New Delhi editorial office of the Indian Express, the country's largest English-language daily, tax agents backed by police burst in and seized documents. The purported aim of their search: evidence of customs- duties violations...
Louw, a lawyer who heads South Africa's Free Market Foundation, and Kendall, editor of a conservative newsletter, offer a libertarian plan that favors the least possible government and the freest possible enterprise. They point out, however, that their own preferences need not be accepted, since the cantonal system would allow residents of each local unit to select by vote the system they prefer. "All the existing political parties and movements would be likely to come to power somewhere," Louw says. "Then we'll be able to see what works...
Something has changed. After 30 years, revolutionary Hungary is now the fattest and freest of all the Soviet satellites. China has discovered the free market. Poland bends to the Roman Catholic Church. Even the Soviet Union is now in the grip of a wave of openness: vital statistics (like infantmortality rates) are being published again; a suppressed antiStalinist film is being released; plane crashes, submarine sinkings and other unsocialist occurrences are being reported...