Word: perestroika
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...Angels in America" consists of two plays, "Millennium Approaches" and "Perestroika...
...Millenium Approaches" opened on Broadway last May, after running successfully in both Los Angeles and London. "Perestroika" opened on Broadway this past week...
...power, the zoku ceased to exist. That made it easier for Hosokawa to take on the Agriculture Ministry over the rice issue, and helped prosecutors push ahead with the arrests of various businessmen and officials in the construction industry. Says Princeton's Calder: "This is Japan's perestroika. Hosokawa is short- circuiting the nomenklatura of the nokyo, the Construction and Agriculture ministries and the L.D.P." Even perestroika all but foundered in a rough economy, though, and Hosokawa is likely to find extensive deregulation too disruptive a course for an economy mired in tough times...
...leaders before Bill Clinton and Al Gore have had high hopes for domestic + perestroika...
...Soviet days began, Remnick believes, not with perestroika, Mikhail Gorbachev's attempt to restructure socialism, but with glasnost -- the readiness to face facts -- and Gorbachev's call to fill in the "blank spots" of history. By losing control of the past, the Communist Party began to lose control of its present -- and future. "The return of history," Remnick writes, "was the start of the great reform of the twentieth century and, whether Gorbachev liked it or not, the collapse of the last empire on earth...