Word: levelling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nonetheless, high-level indignation over the Churbanov affair and the moral decay of the Brezhnev years was registered last week in Pravda. In a scathing article titled "The Son-in-Law and His Clan," Churbanov was depicted as a vain and ambitious man of limited abilities who exploited his connection with Brezhnev to climb up the hierarchy of the Soviet police. The newspaper made clear that he was only a tool in the hands of others, who were operating a mammoth racket in Uzbekistan to falsify cotton-production reports and swindle the state...
...Government's role in education policy, unlike that of its foreign competitors, is strictly curtailed by the Constitution. That encourages innovation at the state and local level, which, in such states as New Jersey and South Carolina, has yielded impressive gains in educational performance. Nevertheless, there are many ways in which the Federal Government can assist financially pressed school systems without unduly intruding into such thorny issues as the exact courses in a curriculum. The objective of federal policy should be to relieve school systems of burdens they cannot manage well while depriving them of excuses for failing to accomplish...
...genuine worker-government accord still seems distant. No schedule has been set for the round-table talks. Although Solidarity will probably not be tolerated as a national movement that could challenge the regime's authority once again, the union may eventually be permitted to act on the factory level...
...debt that reached $47 billion by 1986. But in that same year South Korea registered a small current-account trade surplus, the first in its history, and last year expanded it to $7.7 billion. That overage has helped enable the country to reduce its foreign debt to a current level of $35 billion...
...students found themselves setting the pace again. On July 7, Roh attempted to maneuver his administration into a leading role in the reunification drive with proposals aimed at a thaw in relations with Pyongyang, but the government of Kim Il Sung, reluctant to appear upstaged, responded coolly. Low-level talks since then in the peace village of Panmunjom have stalled. Last week Pyongyang formally announced that it would boycott the Olympics...