Word: shrinkly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Just once you'd like to start out early, free from memory and lighter for it. Like Adam, on that first day: alone but cheerful, no fear of the maker, anything his for the naming; nothing to shrink from, nothing to shirk, no lot to carry that wasn't by choice...
...Shrink chain paying record $300 mil. plus to settle fraud charges
...Urals or Siberia. Today the cities are no longer secret, but life there has changed for the worse. Scientists earn less than $100 a month, and political control remains in the hands of the military, the KGB and former Communist Party officials. As factory subsidies erode and payrolls shrink, thousands of Russia's most talented researchers and millions of factory workers are struggling just to survive. They have thrown open the doors on a backcountry yard sale, offering all comers bargains in everything from highly sophisticated conventional- weapons systems to rare and strategic metals. "This is a very worrisome problem...
...Carrie Fisher hasn't grown up herself, she doesn't have the freedom to write about it in Cora, so there is always the feeling of elements at work that neither the author nor the character are aware of. We end up wishing for a very good shrink for the both them. This is the trouble with Fisher's brand of fictionalized truth...
...that it would allow the U.S. government to keep tabs on phone, fax and computer traffic, and so foreign consumers would not want to buy American-made electronic gear if the government could listen in. With the increasing reliance of the world on electronic devices, our privacy will shrink more and more. The Clinton Administration wants to take away our constitutional right to such privacy. Big Brother will be listening...