Word: heaps
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this scenario, the child of an upper middle-class Harvard graduate, born near the top of the social heap, gets preference over someone who struggled up from the bottom...
...even if the party is destined for the trash heap, not all its members -- 3.8 million before the revolution -- can be ruled out of public life, and some may in time prove their worth. In any case, practicality demands that the government retain at least part of the old bureaucracy in the interest of survival. "What can we do?" asked Corneliu Bogdan, the Deputy Foreign Minister. "There is no question of vengeance." But, he added, "we hope gradually to weed out all the top officials who supported Ceausescu." That kind of compromise made many newly liberated Rumanians uneasy about...
...short intellectual distance from justifying one's own position at the top of the heap to protecting that position against any challenges from the bottom. And in the 1980s, America began walking in that direction...
...long called, and accurately so, the satellites, or captive nations of Eastern Europe, are defecting en masse to the West. They are doing so because Gorbachev is letting them. In the U.S.S.R. the old order is not just passing; it is already on what Leon Trotsky called the trash heap of history. No one, certainly including Gorbachev, knows what is coming next. But whatever it is, it will be something...