Word: keeping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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These developments -- and the gleeful speed with which Poland, Hungary, East Germany and Czechoslovakia have guillotined the Communist monopoly -- must make Mikhail Gorbachev feel like the sorcerer's apprentice. Unable to control the rising flood of reforms he has conjured up, he is finding it harder to keep afloat...
...agenda of this week's session of the Congress of People's Deputies. Gorbachev recognizes that "the rates of perestroika in the party have thus far been slower than those in society, which makes it difficult for the party to carry out its leading role." If Gorbachev wants to keep the liberals' engine hitched to his reform train, a revamped Article 6 must be part of the coupling...
...prices come down and people feel poorer, consumer spending could slow a bit. Other factors may keep the economy humming, but one thing that's bound to slow is the turnover of houses. People are stubborn when it comes to selling their homes at less than they were counting on, let alone at a loss; and, especially after allowing for selling expenses, the equity available from the sale of one's first house may now be less, not more, than what's needed to trade...
They will also be tapping the deep font of goodwill toward aging sports idols. The American male wants to keep seeing athletes do what they once did best. In golf, the senior circuit earns more money than the entire women's tour. Former tennis aces draw big crowds in their own slots at the major tournaments. Boxing, aside from Mike Tyson's bum-of-the-month festival, is one big Over the Hill Gang. Last week's waltz between Sugar Ray Leonard, 33, and Roberto Duran, 38, was the top-grossing fight in history. Next month George Foreman, now bigger...
...take a close look at this new international superstar. As a Communist he is publicly dedicated not to renouncing Marxism, like millions of demonstrators in Eastern Europe, but to rejuvenating it. He is a proud Russian nationalist. He likes power, knows how to use it and wants to keep it. His political reforms, glasnost, are totally inadequate compared with a free society. But compared with what the Soviet people had before, the changes are breathtaking. His economic reforms, perestroika, have been an abject failure. For example, in the ten years of Deng Xiaoping's economic reforms, the per capita income...