Word: meannesses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...HIDDEN costs of these economics are no longer hard to see, or smell or feel. It almost seems that the battles waged for the environment in the '70's don't mean much to anyone anymore...
...some of the children particularly disheartened Hopson. One boy, for example, insisted he was white, pointing to his palm. "Black is dirty," declared another. Still, says Hopson, her study does not show that black youngsters "are full of self-hatred or that they want to be white. It does mean that the message they're getting is that it's preferable to be another race...
...independent ways of American Catholics present a challenge that the resolute John Paul is determined to meet. This does not mean that he will necessarily arrive with tongue lashing and finger wagging. As with his dramatic 1979 U.S. visit, John Paul's Sept. 10-19 journey will feature blessings and warm homilies to huge and friendly crowds (see following story). But this time he will rely far more on advice from American bishops, who conferred with him in Rome, and he is expected to avoid confrontational speeches. The trip, through the Sunbelt and California to Detroit, will acknowledge U.S. cultural...
...policy of glasnost, though, is breeding confusion among editors, who now must decide themselves what to print. In July, Gorbachev warned Soviet journalists that openness and democracy "do not mean permissiveness." He seemed to be defining glasnost's limits when he told them that any attempt to advocate economic and cultural reforms "beyond socialism" will be censured. In fact, editors know that many subjects remain strictly taboo, such as the private lives of top party officials or criticism of Soviet arms-control proposals...
...West is still a foreign notion in the Soviet Union. Rather, discussions among Soviet journalists about a free press concentrate on how much editorial independence is needed to help Gorbachev in his efforts to modernize the economy and revitalize the country. Glasnost, Soviet experts note, was not intended to mean freedom of information for information's sake...