Word: rising
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...acre area. The hilly terrain hides most of the encroaching suburban buildings, but at the end of one path is a parking lot with graffiti on its back wall. Beyond the lot is a low concrete building resembling a factory. At a turn in another path a high-rise apartment building looms over the grounds...
...threw a well-deserved barb at House Speaker Jim Wright for the manifest ethics problems which soon will engulf him and the rest of the Democratic leadership of the House. Opposition to Wright is advocated by everyone concerned about ethics--everyone, that is, except for anyone who hopes to rise within the Democratic Party...
...sowed the seeds of democracy, no one could have foreseen that they would mature so quickly into grass-roots revolutions like the Estonian Popular Front. There may be times, in fact, when the Soviet leader must wonder if he has planted a brier patch. The Estonian initiative has given rise to other popular fronts in the Baltic states, but its indirect impact has been far greater. It has become a model for an amorphous mass of unofficial political groupings and single-issue movements across the country, championing causes long ignored by the party and government bureaucracy: cleaning up the Volga...
...legal drinking age from 18 to 21, limited the hours when alcohol could be sold and increased the price of vodka from 4.7 rubles ($7.75) to 10 rubles ($16.50) a liter. But popular resistance has forced Gorbachev to ease up on his crusade, and public drunkenness is on the rise again...
...military and the KGB. Now we publish everything that we can vouch for, which is how it should be. That is how Ogonyok's stories on the crimes of Stalin and modern corruption originated. That is how we examine such things as the decline of the Bolshoi Ballet, the rise of nonparty organizations in the Baltic republics, the problems of the poor and attempts to use anti-Semitism to restore a dictatorship of fear...