Word: reflective
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...biggest users are Harvard and MIT, yet the rate increase does not reflect them," Walsh said, adding that the proposal would merely perpetuate the present system. Instead, he said the rates per cubic foot should be highest for the institutions using the most water...
Canada now has a well-developed welfare state which provides admirably for all its citizens and seems to reflect the sense of community that Canadians hold dear. The Liberal and New Democratic fear that Canada would become more like the U.S. will become a painful reality if Mulroney starts to cut away at these programs to attack the country's large budget deficit...
...tensions in Tallinn reflect frustrations that have accumulated over nearly 50 years, following Moscow's 1940 annexation of the territory. Since then, Moscow's policies have whittled down the Estonian-controlled sector of the economy to 13% and living standards have eroded. Everything from the cost of movie tickets to bread recipes for bakeries is determined in Moscow, a condition that the Popular Front's Koik condemns as "colonialism, not economic management...
Leshchinsky's commentary seemed to reflect deepening Soviet pessimism about Najibullah's survival amid the outcome of the nine-year struggle against mujahedin insurgents. In Kabul the Kremlin appeared to be laying the groundwork for a negotiated change of government. Two weeks ago Sayed Mohammed Gulabzoi, the once powerful Interior Minister, was suddenly posted to Moscow as ambassador, a kind of exile. His apparent problem: opposition to compromise with the mujahedin. Last week another sympathizer of the hard-line Khalqi faction, Deputy Foreign Minister Abdul Ghaffer Lakanwal, defected to the U.S. while in New York to attend the U.N. General...
...used to fuel the politics of resentment, all come out of Richard Nixon's playbook. In the minds of too many voters, the Democrats are still the party of militant blacks, meddlesome social workers, uppity feminists and draft-card-burning protesters. Such images not only are unfair but also reflect some of the nation's most deep-seated prejudices. Sad to say, they also provide a convincing explanation for the pattern inherent in the defeats of Hubert Humphrey, George McGovern, Jimmy Carter, Walter Mondale and now Dukakis...