Word: overtness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Very rarely does a Soviet tell the agitatori that he or she does not intend to vote. In Stalin's time, not voting literally led to a midnight knock on the door and a one-way ticket to Siberia. Now there are no overt punishments, but a notation may be entered in the non-voter's police file...
...small publishing house that specializes in Russian literature. Currently one of the most visible writers in exile, Dovlatov is a regular contributor of fiction to The New Yorker. Last fall a collection of short pieces, The Compromise, was published by Knopf. The tales are conspicuously devoid of the anger, overt and covert, that characterizes many émigrés' writing about their native country; Dovlatov's stories gently ridicule the obtuseness of the Soviet bureaucracy and the mendacity and corruption that invade everyday life. In The Compromise the author comically contrasts the news stories written by a Soviet...
...successor, Dixy Lee Ray, the state's first female Governor, killed the plan when she took office in 1977. In the Castrilli case, Judge Jack Tanner ruled last November that the disparities violate the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which, he said, "was designed to bar not only overt employment discrimination but also practices that are fair in form but discriminatory in operation...
...study, which was conducted at twelve medical centers across the U.S., were between the ages of 35 and 59. None had overt signs of heart disease when they were recruited, but all had abnormally high cholesterol levels of 265 mg per deciliter of blood and above. All the participants were put on a low-cholesterol diet limiting intake of fatty meat, eggs and dairy products. Half were also treated with cholestyramine, a powerful drug that lowers cholesterol; the others received a placebo...
...page editor of the Shreveport (La.) Journal, recently returned from a three-week trip through the Soviet Union, and suspects that "they are changing their strategy in Western Europe, and may be contemplating a nonnuclear blitzkrieg." But he adds: "Right now, I don't see any possibility of overt action against the West." Michael Fitch, 36, an electrician from Waterford, Mich., puts it simply: "We have our missiles and they have theirs...