Word: membered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...decades. The trade-union movement took all 161 seats it was allowed to contest in the Sejm, and 99 of the 100 seats in the Senate. Even so, the Communist Party and its allies, principally the United Peasants' Party and the Democratic Party, retained 299 seats in the 460-member Sejm through a reserved list...
...history, the Communists still retained formidable power. Even before Mazowiecki was tapped by the President, Solidarity told the Communists they would continue to hold the key Defense and Interior Ministry -- and perhaps the Foreign Ministry -- portfolios in any new government, and Walesa assured Moscow that Poland would remain a member of the Warsaw Pact. The Communists also retained their monopoly on positions within the bloated bureaucracy...
...dirty secret of class consciousness. "It took me nearly a quarter of a century to realize that here was the tension that gave me a subject," he notes, after admitting that while growing up Irish Catholic in West Hartford, Conn., he yearned to be an Episcopalian and a member of Wasp society...
...times change. Last week, as a member of Solidarity was about to become Prime Minister, Soviet officials said simply that it was an "internal" Polish matter. A Moscow television reporter noted that "it is necessary to form a new government as quickly as possible," then ticked off a short list of potential leaders that included Lech Walesa. The reaction was expected. Visiting Paris in July, Gorbachev had said, "How the Polish people . . . will decide to structure their society and lives will be their affair...
...appalling state. "The standards today are derisory by standards that were operative in ordinary little country schools a hundred years ago," he writes. A believer in meritocracy based on struggle, Silber decries what he sees as a pernicious confusion between equality of opportunity and equal ability. "Not a single member of our founding fathers believed any such rubbish," he says. "It is perfectly obvious that all individuals are not born with equal ability. I wish I could run as fast as Carl Lewis...