Word: nationale
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This unprecedented loosening of central authority is a bold but risky attempt by Gorbachev to deal with the surging tide of nationalism; he has had trouble riding that particular wave in recent months. While Baltic representatives acknowledged that their economies could not yet survive under full independence, some of the...
As he so often does in tense times, Gorbachev last week portrayed himself as both head of the government and leader of the opposition. When he saw the striking miners "taking matters completely into their own hands," he said on national television, he concluded that there was a lesson for...
The result, says Hochschild, is that most wives among the 50 two-job couples she interviewed drive home from the office while plotting domestic schedules and playdates for the children, and then work a second shift. Recent national studies she surveyed concluded that women spend 15 fewer hours at leisure...
-- Report of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, 1968
"I have as many white friends as black, but my white friends and I don't talk about race, because when we do, we get testy," says Franklin Williams, a black New York City foundation executive. Henry Schwarzschild, a white long active in national civil rights causes, remains equally pessimistic...