Word: ll
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...also feared for his parents and brothers. "They'll be in trouble if I stay here," he said. "They won't be allowed to go abroad [ever]...How can I stay here just for myself...
...country derives from the economic relations among its citizens (although Adam Smith had figured out the same thing in the previous century). The leaders of the Russian and Chinese revolutions imposed on the people a totalitarian form of the social compact: You give up your freedom, and we'll make sure you live decently. Bread was one of the most common words on the banners that the workers carried through the streets of Petrograd in 1917, and the promise of food was an important theme in the propaganda of the Communists as they swept to victory in China...
...open their market and reduce the stubborn trade gap with the U.S. While the government has cleared the way for more imports of U.S. beef and citrus products, bans on purchases of American rice are being retained. Says a Japanese diplomat, in specific reference to a U.S. barrier: "We'll do rice when the U.S. does sugar...
...been diverted into state coffers, she gripes, "I still don't have enough money for a Mercedes." When last seen, Zvereva was stomping back to the Kremlin to have it out with her agents. "If you don't see me at the French Open," she giggled in parting, "you'll know what happened...
...most daring development, as usual, is coming from the National Football League. Tex Schramm, the exiled general manager of the Dallas Cowboys, has been forming an international spring league that will announce its franchises any day now. "And they'll be kicking off next April," Schramm says...