Word: mirrored
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Anyway, I got ready for my date. I wore that new flannel shirt and fished through the drawer for the clean pair of socks I keep for just such occasions. I even did my Frank Burns imitation and checked for nose hairs in the mirror. I left nothing to chance...
...than the capitalist world gives. After all, the Soviet socialist system is the most progressive in the world. Yet even after 50 years, communist parties are still unable to win in parliamentary elections. This is something to think about. People refuse to follow us. We are not yet a mirror into which the West wants to look. We have to create tangible advantages and therefore create conditions for the victory of our way of life. This is the question of questions...
...that bread. Through the existing system it is not possible to acquire food on time and in the quantity needed. Moscow can't satisfy the needs of its own population, yet it is better off than other cities of the Soviet Union. Kiev, for example, has always been a mirror that reflected the state of agricultural production. Now this mirror shows us a very unattractive image...
Publication of a comprehensive poll by the Times Mirror Co. last week compounded insiders' angst by showing that political dyspepsia has worsened. For instance, 78% say that elected federal officials quickly lose touch with constituents (vs. 73% in a comparable poll three years ago). The proposition that ordinary people lack influence on government action gets agreement from 57%, up 5 points...
...neither signs of hardening alienation nor scattered election returns signal border-to-border upheaval. Norman Ornstein, a consultant on the Times Mirror project, argues, "Linkage between these attitudes and political action hasn't yet been made in most places." One reason is that the Persian Gulf crisis has dominated the news and overshadowed the hard-to-focus outrage at the S&L debacle. Further, many entrenched incumbents raised so much money so early that worthy rivals never entered the fray...