Word: lied
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Vasili Pichul's smash hit Little Vera, the kids look like Sunset Strip punks and act as if they'd just invented adolescent angst. Vera's dad is a drunken oaf, abusing the children who hate him yet cling to him and lie to protect him. He could be the petty dictator of a pre-Gorbachev regime, and his daughter the strident soul of rebellion. In her sharp, defiant voice, you can hear the sound of breaking glasnost...
...weaker Soviet economy has been unable to win--leading to the Gorbachev "reforms." The political and economic costs of the arms race and Soviet expansionism--and the realization that these policies cannot be continued with out doing great harm to the Soviet economy and regime--are what ultimately lie behind recent Russian reforms...
...intriguing question arising at Oliver North's Iran-contra trial goes beyond whether Ronald Reagan was aware of the secret policy his subordinates carried out in his name. Put bluntly, the new question is, Did the former President not only approve of the policy but lie about it in 1987 when he told the Tower commission that he did not know of the National Security Council's assistance to the rebels...
...benefit of reduced pesticide use would be less chemical contamination of fish. The waters where fish breed are being polluted by pesticide runoff from the land along with sewage and industrial wastes that are dumped into streams and rivers. Oyster and clam beds that lie close offshore have been especially vulnerable...
...food and water? Two tainted grapes and a scare over apples lead to the destruction of tons of fruit. Are Americans overly sensitive to risk, or are there justifiable fears about what we eat and drink? -- Why Bush approved a ban on imported semiautomatic weapons. -- Did Reagan lie about, or merely forget, his efforts for the contras? -- A custody dispute over fertilized eggs...