Word: opened
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...least 80% of Peru's weary populace wants the government to open a national front against terrorism. Perhaps in response, the government two weeks ago announced an ambitious campaign against the rebels. Still, few Peruvians are confident the government can quell the warfare before the economy reaches the point of no return. As retired General Sinescio Jarama warns, "Sendero is not winning, we are losing...
Workingwomen's resentment of the two-track notion has burst into the open, sparked by a management expert's proposal to introduce a formal basis for such a discriminatory system. Put forth by author Felice Schwartz in an article in the January-February issue of the Harvard Business Review (title: "Management Women and the New Facts of Life"), the plan suggests relegating most working mothers to a gentle career path, which wags have dubbed the Mommy Track. Only women willing to set aside family considerations would be singled out for the fast lane to the executive suite. The startling idea...
...life. Says Jayne Day, mother of a six- year-old daughter and a partner in the Manhattan office of the accounting firm Peat Marwick: "How, at age 25, is anyone going to make a personal decision about what track to be on? Firms need to be more open and flexible...
...return of the Great Crocodile, as Botha is not so affectionately called, dispelled the feeling of relief that had swept over the party and white South Africans in general while he was out of commission and the more open-minded and tactful De Klerk had taken charge. De Klerk is from Voortrekker (pioneer) country and is as conservative in ideas and policies as Botha. But his style is less dictatorial, more conciliatory...
...even the Soviets. "Gorbachev has given his clients considerable leeway," says Adrian Hyde-Price, a research fellow at London's Royal Institute of International Affairs. "But he does not seem to have a carefully thought-through policy for the longer term. It is a dreadful double problem: how to open the floodgates without letting too much water rush...