Word: short
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...antipathy. He gathered Black votes by saying he was doing everything he could to move them out of the ghettos while at the same time sending a message to white communities that electing him would ensure that Blacks stayed out of their neighborhoods. Harold Washington changed this for a short time by keeping his promises of reform--winning fair and square and giving everyone, white and Black, an equal chance to work for the city or to have their neighborhood receive city funding, and by the time of his reelection, had begun to convince white voters that he was going...
...short, as careers in government have grown less attractive, the paths to success in public life have become more diverse and uncertain. There is no indication that these trends will soon be reversed...
...lesson of 1969 is that, while neither style of activism is demonstrably superior, both require mass participation--a key criterion by which much of today's activism falls short--regardless of the tactics. Although the radical ideology and tactics of the '69 strikers may well have alienated the administration and fueled reaction, the very vehemence of the '69 protests got results...
...House budget leader has said that this year's fiscal woes are the result of overspending and are not due to a revenue problem, as the governor maintains. He has said that possible solutions to this year's budget crunch include short-term borrowing, a one-time tax increase or unanticipated revenue growth in the final months of the fiscal year...
Look at Gorbachev's Soviet Union through the eyes of Andrei Sinyavsky, and prepare to be astonished. As a literary critic in Moscow, Sinyavsky for years secretly published bitter, moving short stories in the West under the pseudonym Abram Tertz. When Soviet officials discovered Tertz's real identity in 1965, they arrested Sinyavsky, along with his friend Yuli Daniel, another underground writer. Convicted of "anti-Soviet acts" in a celebrated trial that for the first time drew the world's attention to Moscow's dissident movement, Sinyavsky spent almost six years in a labor camp, Daniel five. Sinyavsky emigrated...