Word: gleaning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While awaiting a new generation of textbooks, teachers of history glean material from glasnost-era news articles telling long-repressed tales, such as that of Nikolai Bukharin, whose free-market economics (presaging Gorbachev's) helped get him executed by Stalin. The impact of these makeshift texts is already apparent in the discussions in Yamburg's Moscow classroom, where 15- year-olds recently debated Stalin's role in Soviet history. "He had a lot to do with the industrialization and collectivization of our country," asserted one blond-haired boy. But a classmate countered, "Some consider him a criminal because he ruined...
...terminal building, there were occasional scenes of chaos as anxious Frontier passengers, left stranded by a sudden shutdown, scrambled to find other airlines that would accept their tickets. As the paralysis wore on, groups of Frontier's 4,700 employees huddled in airport corridors and union halls to glean the slightest rumor of their fate...
...questioned, and Harvard Psychiatrist Robert Coles would be hands- down, standing-ovation winner of the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award. He might also win the Dino De Laurentiis plaque for epic production. To date, Coles has spent 28 years toting notebook, crayons and tape recorder around the world, attempting to glean moral and political insights from children, an effort that now runs to seven books and more than a million words...
...potential revenue from an amnesty is enormous: $81.5 billion in federal taxes went uncollected in 1981 alone, according to Internal Revenue Service estimates, and amnesty proponents predict that a one-time program could glean $8.6 billion. But many in Washington doubt that tax dodgers can be enticed into paying up. Since studies indicate that most people who take advantage of state amnesties faithfully file U.S. tax returns, presumably because of stricter enforcement at the federal level, the House Budget Committee reckons that a federal pardon might raise only $1 billion to $2 billion. Critics of an amnesty, including...
...precise rows of labeled folders, suggesting a world tidier than it is. Gone are the old trappings of office -- the direct phone link to the President, the reams of classified documents. But he dismisses secret papers as too short-range to be useful now. Experience enables his team to glean much from press reports. He is out more than in, meeting clients in corporate boardrooms, making more than 50 speeches a year for a minimum of $20,000 each, cultivating new contacts as old ones phase...