Word: musts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...achievements of socialism. But glasnost itself is an achievement of socialism. Economic perestroika, like glasnost, is being discredited, hobbled, scared off, worn down. In economics, as in literature, there are sacred cows who pretend to be defending the national interest and are actually defending only their own. Today glasnost must help the economy. Tomorrow, if glasnost is in trouble, it will be supported by the mighty shoulder of the new economy. Without personal initiative, we will not be able to move forward in either glasnost or the economy...
...liked by humanity -- not through lies, but because of the truth it brings to the world. But most of all, I want our country to like itself. We love it, are proud of its traditions. But not all traditions are good. And priterpelost is a bad tradition that must be rejected as being incompatible with perestroika...
...County, N.Y., enacted the first law in the U.S. to regulate VDT use in the workplace. The ordinance applies to businesses that operate more than 20 VDTs and mandates a 15-minute break every three hours for workers who use the terminals more than 26 hours a week. Employers must contribute 80% of the cost of eyeglasses and yearly eye exams; by 1990, adjustable chairs and nonglare screens will be compulsory for all new equipment...
...outside the arena and began to weep, actually to bawl, a cold kind of crying that carried for a distance. He was a primitive again. As the U.S. boxing team trooped through the airport after the trials, a woman mistakenly directed her good wishes to the alternate, Tyson. "She must mean good luck on the flight," said the superheavyweight Tyrell Biggs, a future Tyson opponent who would rue his joke...
...stretch from seven minutes to 103. From sad experience, Disney and Spielberg should know the perils of paying huge homage to modest genres, yet Roger Rabbit has the odor of a Toontown Tron, a 1941 for 1988. Zemeckis deserves credit for his will and wit, but he must have been handcuffed by the size of both the film and his ambitions for it. And, unlike the cartoon Roger Rabbit, this gifted director couldn't get out. Even when it wasn't funny...