Word: roote
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...control in backward peasant societies. During the early days of the cold war, when it seemed that nothing could contain the virus of Communist expansion, pundits attempted to assure the West that most Marxist regimes took power only with the force of outside arms. On its own, Communism took root only in benighted countries like czarist Russia and feudal China. The more advanced countries of Eastern Europe -- Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Poland -- had the Marxist-Leninist system thrust upon them on the point of a Soviet Red Army bayonet...
...result of the court's ruling, say legal experts, is that firms will be under pressure to root out bias among individuals making important personnel decisions. "The court is saying to employers they should examine their processes and make sure they have objective standards," says Douglas McDowell of the Equal Employment Advisory Council. "Supervisors must be properly trained to ensure that race and sex aren't part of the decision- making process." Such changes in attitude may already be under way at Price Waterhouse. Referring to the embarrassing publicity generated by this case, Kathryn Oberly, an attorney for Price Waterhouse...
...people are brave enough to risk a $3 haircut at the local barber college, and fewer still will opt for cut-rate root-canal work done by a student at a dental-school clinic. But a growing cadre of frugal gourmets from Montpelier to San Francisco is finding that meals in culinary-school restaurants can be very tasty deals indeed. A senior's sauce may need a soupcon of salt, or a nervous freshman waiter may tip over your water goblet, but for the most part, cooking-school eateries provide an interesting ambience and fine cuisine at half the price...
Americans are no less fascinated by the allure of aphrodisiacs. Some claim to use Spanish fly, a powder made from the blister beetle, but it is poisonous and can kill you. The ginseng root, long a staple among Asians, is popular in the U.S. But nobody has yet bottled the genuine article, and until that happens, one simple rule will continue to apply: a tiger's penis or powdered peacock bones are aphrodisiacs only if you think they...
...Patrick Reynolds, 40, tobacco is the root of a small fortune and the object of a zealous crusade. A grandson of R.J. Reynolds, founder of the giant tobacco company, Reynolds enjoyed a privileged prep-school upbringing in Connecticut and Florida. But in the five years since he stubbed out his last cigarette, the sometime TV-and-film actor has become a militant antismoker. Now Reynolds has co-written, with author Tom Shachtman, The Gilded Leaf (Little, Brown; $19.95), a moralistic tale about a fortune built on tobacco and dissipated by reckless heirs. Says Reynolds: "The hand that...