Word: planned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...That plan seems to pave the way for opposition leader Vaclav Havel, a jailed playwright and symbol of Czechoslovakia's peaceful revolution, and dash the hopes of Alexander Dubcek, the 68-year-old Slovak who led the "Prague Spring" reforms...
...sacrifices the principle that a free, educated community can and should direct itself toward its own ideals--gradually if need be--for the illusion that tolerance can be manufactured virtually overnight, externally. For the sake of the symbolism of total randomization, it also sweeps aside serious problems with that plan...
...unsettling realization for me, since I plan to pursue the career in political cartooning and general social satire that I nurtured at Harvard. As my career at The Crimson fades into the past tense, I recognize that I have chosen a medium that is restricted to those who already care about the issues. And to those who read. And these segments of the population are endangered species...
...question of the agenda is righting the economy, the stages of economic reform and our approach to the next five-year plan," Gorbachev said. He said the country needed "as never before," discipline and responsibility...
Despite Gorbachev's plea for urgent action on the economy, a long debate over procedural matters threw the Congress behind schedule, delaying Premier Nikolai I. Ryzhkov's economic report. That report apparently will be based on a long-term plan developed by his deputy, Leonid Abalkin, that includes making the ruble convertible, selling off unprofitable state enterprises and developing a stock market...