Word: pasts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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American officials, however, argue that massive handouts would be unproductive. During the past two decades, the regimes in Poland and Hungary entrenched themselves by using foreign loans to subsidize cheap consumer goods rather than upgrade industries. "The last thing the West should do is to forgive us our debts," says a senior Hungarian diplomat. "It would just relieve the pressure for reforms, so it would be money down the drain again...
...fast enough to keep things moving? We know that reform means instability in the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia, Poland and Hungary. At the same time, we know we need foreign capital. Most basic is, How do we reform the thinking of our people who for the past 40 years have not been told how the world works...
...address at Karl Marx University, it was difficult to find any sign of Marx. The lone statue at the far end of the huge hall was blocked from sight by the press stand. "Your people and your leaders -- government and opposition alike -- are not afraid to break with the past, to act in the spirit of truth," Bush told the students. "And what better example of this could there be than one simple fact: Karl Marx University has dropped Das Kapital from its required reading list." All over the hall George Bush, a proud product of U.S capitalism...
...years, we have been destroying everything in our country, the life of the people, its biological, ecological, moral and economic basis. Naturally, people look to the past for some point of support, some constructive idea. Now people are looking here and there and finally coming across Stolypin's reforms and how he dealt with the peasantry...
...have said the moral life of the West has declined during the past 300 years. What do you mean by that...