Word: nationalization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...five children in this country lives in poverty: half of those are in long-term poverty," said Kennedy School of Government Lecturer in Public Policy Olivia Golden '76. Even worse, she said, is the fact that since 1985 the nation ranks 19th in infant mortality worldwide...
...instead of designing increasingly complex weapons to kill, the nation's top scientists can focus on creating ways to improve the environment--making discoveries that can help, instead of injure, humans...
...nation's infrastructure is also in shambles. Roads, bridges, tunnels decay with each successive day. Here in Massachusetts, public works officials have said that the state faces a great infrastructure crisis...
...over the past 50 years has been to promote democracy abroad. Well, the risk of expansionary communism has been eliminated, and it is time to properly educate the students of America. Without educating our students, the United States runs the risk of turning into a second- or third-rate nation...
...Gorbachev fears the consequences of a turn toward a free-market system. As he told a group of Soviet economists, "I know only one thing, that after two weeks such a market would bring the whole nation out on the streets and sweep out any government, even one declaring devotion to the people." But Gorbachev's great strength has been to take the Soviet system and its people to destinations unimagined only a few years ago. The time has come for Gorbachev to accept that there is no middle ground. As his Polish neighbors say these days, "You cannot cross...