Word: particularized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...human-rights movement; and in Gorky isolation. My fundamental ideas were reflected in a 1968 essay, "Progress, Peaceful Coexistence, and Intellectual Freedom," but since then life has brought many changes that have forced me to modify my position and make it applicable to specific circumstances. I am referring in particular to recent changes in the domestic life and foreign policy of the U.S.S.R...
...GORBACHEV. I have thoughts of a technical nature regarding strategic arms reduction. But first I would like to examine certain general issues. As a citizen of the U.S.S.R., I direct my appeals to the leadership of our country in particular, along with the other great powers with their special responsibility for the world situation...
...idea that shows particular promise is the concept of auctioned quotas. Rather than just giving away the import allowances, proponents ask, why not sell off the quotas to the highest bidders? Under the current system the U.S. leaves it to foreign governments to decide how quotas should be apportioned among their companies, which pay no money for the exporting privileges. But under an auction plan, the U.S.-based companies that import the products would bid directly to the Federal Government for a share of the quota, bringing a whole new source of income to the U.S. Treasury...
...really didn't matter that I had to return it. I had taken my notes and I had all the information I would need about how the popular press and the popular Parisian press viewed royal mistresses in general and Madame du Barry in particular. More importantly, however, I had been able to hold a piece of the reality I am trying to reconstruct...
...this narrow focus lie both the greatest weaknesses and strengths of Mating Birds. The novel begins, "In a few days I am to die," but the common 20th century technique of telling a story from the end is not carried off with particular novelty or innovation. So far as contemporary novels go, the plot is largely predictable. It follows the protagonist, Sibiya, from a Zula reservation to his enrollment in school, to expulsion after participation in anti-apartheid riots, to his progressive obsession with Veronica at a beach, to forbidden copulation in her bungalow, to discovery, trial and sentencing. There...