Word: questioningly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ballot question, known as Proposition 1-2-3, would allow tenants who have lived in rentcontrolled apartments for more than two years to buy them as condominiums--thus reducing the city's stock of affordable housing. Sponsors of 1-2-3 argue that the referendum would benefit the city by allowing more city residents to own their own homes, but opponents charge that such a change would deal a death-blow to the rent-control system...
...their jobs from the Ukraine to the Arctic Circle. Ethnic gangs battling in Georgia. Thousands of other dissatisfied workers threatening strikes. "The situation," said Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev last week as he surveyed the turmoil rocking his vast country, "is fraught with dangerous political and economic consequences." The question for Gorbachev: Will the "revolution from below," which he has been urging on his laggard countrymen, help accelerate his ambitious plans for reform -- or tear the U.S.S.R. apart...
...line because there had been no fighting in Kashmir's northernmost reaches, but merely mentioned that the line should continue "thence north to the glaciers." Despite minor adjustments after the 1965 and 1971 India-Pakistan wars, the official boundary still ends at NJ 9842, leaving the Siachen ownership question unresolved...
Until much more testing is completed, the debate cannot answer a very basic question: Is the B-2 capable of attacking targets in the Soviet Union without being detected? The initial flight proved only that the boomerang-shaped delta wing can fly. It remains to be seen whether the sleek aerodynamic design, composite-plastics fabrication and other tricks intended to evade radar will actually work...
Bird (pop. 2,000) is not the real name of the town where Parker records the steady rhythms of the American heartland. Interviewees are also understood to have noms de cassette, although the use of anonymity to protect the innocent raises the question Protect them against what? "Folks go out and leave their doors unlocked, park their vehicles and leave the keys in the ignition and know they'll still be there when they come back," says County Sheriff Jim Arnoldsen...