Word: goulash
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Sometimes life just gets to be too much. Too many cold French fries on your plate, no double chocolate cookies for dessert, no way to identify the ingredients of the goulash swimming through the egg noodles. Sometimes the cravings take over and there is no way to fight the nausea of the dining hall and there is no convenient kitchen cabinet to turn to. Sometimes you just want choice. "Discover the Difference." Welcome to Star Market, the biggest supermarket around...
Madonna: Well, to avoid aggravating global tension, I would say it's a tie [laughs]. No, no, I am serious now. See here, I am working like a canine all the way around the clock! I have been too busy even to try the goulash that makes your country one for the record books...
...waves of the 19th century. Though different and perhaps more problematic than those who have come before, the latest immigrants are helping form a new society, a variation and intensification of the great American experiment. Too complicated and diffuse to be described as a melting pot, or even a goulash or a mosaic, that society today is really a collection of intertwining subcultures, each contributing its own character to the nation's life -- from food to fashion, from art to politics -- while retaining its distinctiveness...
HUNGARY. Former boss Janos Kadar's "goulash communism" allowed some privatization of industry (15% by 1989) and considerable self-management by state-owned enterprises. So when communism was overthrown, the new government saw no need for shock treatment; officials could institute a more gradual process of lifting price controls and reducing or eliminating subsidies. As a result, Hungary has experienced the smallest drop in production in Eastern Europe (6.5% last year) and the lowest inflation (34% for all 1991, about a third of that at year's end). Hungary has been especially successful in attracting foreign investment; it has formed...
Hungarian revisionism, nicknamed "goulash communism," produced prosperity and glitter for a while, but the economy nonetheless went into a long decline because the stagnation was too widespread and deep rooted to be cured by tinkering. Party boss Janos Kadar, the quisling who had replaced Nagy, was ousted in May 1988. He was succeeded by moderate reformer Karoly Grosz. But as in the Soviet Union, moderate reform was, by definition, inadequate. Drastic measures were necessary and, in the Gorbachev era, acceptable to Moscow. In search of new ideas and a democratic image in January 1989, parliament passed legislation permitting the formation...