Word: making
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...world has closed in on him, Bush has gone to his faithful telephone. Just 15 minutes before he was scheduled to make his statement to the nation on sending troops to Panama, Bush paused in his hurried preparations and put in a call to Costa Rica's President Oscar Arias Sanchez, the Nobel Peace laureate, even though he had spoken with him just a few hours earlier. "I'd just feel better if I know what's on his mind," the President said...
...downed tools for higher pay, while others burned a prosperous collective that raised pigs because it was too successful. In Poland the economic program of Solidarity runs directly counter to any efforts at reform. It demands higher wages, stable prices and job security. In China efforts to decentralize decision making have resulted in economic anarchy as local authorities assumed the power to tax or even create money that citizens had earlier unquestioningly granted to the Emperor or Mao. And in all three countries housewives, unable to make the connection between higher prices and availability, complain about paying several times...
...found to teach people that a gain for one is not necessarily a loss for another, that long-term improvements may require short-term sacrifices, that some changes are for the good, that it is their responsibility to keep local authorities in line. Only that sociological change will make possible the economic and political reforms that Gorbachev, Deng and other reformers insist are necessary. Thus far, no Communist regime has found a way out of this dilemma. Lenin once said, "Give me four years to teach the children, and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted." His political...
...high-style cop show that defined TV noir for the '80s ends its five-year war on drugs with a two-hour finale. The ending is hush-hush, but the network says Crockett and Tubbs (Don Johnson and Philip Michael Thomas) will make their "last stand together...
Levin has accused Gulf Power of "trying to make the public believe Jake set the plane on fire" by telling only their side of the story behind Horton's imminent dismissal. Executives of Gulf Power and Southern have clammed up, refusing to give more information until authorities determine the cause of the mishap. One thing is sure: no matter what the investigation turns up, many people in Pensacola will insist that the crash that killed Jake Horton was no accident...