Word: longer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Abba Eban says, "Israeli rhetoric is no longer based on contemporary realities but on Jewish memories, and that is a failure in leadership...
...Offer a larger tax cut for investments that are held longer, and raise the tax sharply for speculation in which assets are churned in days or minutes...
...Impose a security-transactions tax on each sale of a stock or bond to further encourage longer-term investment over churning. At the 0.5% rate charged by Britain and Japan, such a tax would raise $10 billion a year for the Treasury...
That was brought to vivid life by the Interregional Group. In the first issue of its new newspaper, Moscow Deputy Sergei Stankevich assured his colleagues that they no longer had to believe that organizing a political opposition was a crime against the state. A struggle among dissenting factions, he said, "is the only possible method of existence for a legislative body." Counting absentees, 388 Deputies said they were willing to associate themselves with this departure from Communist rectitude. Though that is a distinct minority of the 2,250-member Congress, the surprising thing is that an opposition faction exists...
American experts find such revisionism a dramatic development. With establishment journals publishing criticism of Lenin, says Dimitri Simes of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, "nothing about Communism is sacred any longer in the Soviet Union." Robert Legvold, director of Columbia University's Harriman Institute, does not expect Lenin to go from icon to archvillain. "Lenin will be given an honorary place in Soviet history as the founder of the country," says he. "Yet, just as U.S. historians can show the warts of George Washington, Soviet historians will be able to do the same with Lenin...