Word: reform
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...priority on domestic economic reform in both countries is the principal reason for the improvement in Sino-Soviet relations. Both Deng and Gorbachev are looking for a peaceful international climate that will make it easier for them to divert resources to the industrial, agricultural and consumer sectors. The Chinese welcome Gorbachev's declared willingness to rely less on the threat or use of force in Soviet foreign policy. Says General Wang Zhenxi, deputy director of foreign-army studies of the Chinese Military Science Academy in Beijing: "Should Gorbachev's domestic reforms be successful, it would be helpful for world peace...
Salinas, a 40-year-old economist with a doctoral degree from Harvard, campaigned on a platform of reform, promising political and economic modernization. As he stumped the country for eight months, he sounded the themes of pluralism and democracy, staking his reputation on a clean contest. While no candidate charged that Salinas condoned or abetted any of last week's purported irregularities, the allegations threw into question his ability to manage the P.R.I.'s apparatus...
...reform-school ambience is essential, Carrasco believes, because nearly all the trainees are dropouts (average age: 17) and have been in scrapes with the law or have had trouble at home. But all sign up voluntarily, usually after repeatedly failing to get a job. They endure the regimen partly because of parental pressure, which Carrasco helps to generate by visiting his students' families at home. "We involve the parents at every turn," he explains. "We correct the notion that their children are 'our' responsibility. Hell, no. We have to work together...
...West Germany's Foreign Policy Research Institute. "When it became evident in January 1987 that the Central Committee would not accept some of his changes, he stepped back and organized a party conference to get them through." Even so, most analysts warned that Gorbachev's success in winning institutional reform only underscored the largely unmet challenges of economic perestroika (restructuring). The conference featured several speeches by delegates complaining about the inadequacy of food supplies and the poor quality of housing under the present system...
...shares Lipsig's view of his usefulness to society. Critics of big damage judgments blame aggressive liability lawyers for causing insurance rates to skyrocket and for putting the bite on city governments whose "deep pockets" are filled with taxpayer dollars. Says Blair Childs, executive director of the American Tort Reform Association, a lobby group in Washington: "Harry Lipsig typifies the system where no one wins but the likes of Harry Lipsig. A few others win big with him. But society is hurt...