Word: sinking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...when former idols and heroes are overthrown, it's like a dust storm. It's difficult to see what will emerge in the end. I'm convinced that the radical changes in Central and Eastern Europe in no way signal "the collapse of socialism." Genuine socialist values will not sink into oblivion. Even in the present environment of turbulent change they assert their right to exist...
...dangers of internal divisions, hard-liners are offering a one-hour video titled Eastern Europe in Turmoil. According to one viewer, the tape is designed "to make local Communist officials realize that if in a crisis they fail to hitch a line to the Communist boat, they will all sink together -- like Ceausescu...
...opening on Broadway this week. Outwardly, it has much in common with Fences, which won Wilson the Pulitzer in 1987: it portrays a conflict among members of a black family over whether to hunker down under white racism or risk ambition and disappointment. But unlike Fences, a kitchen-sink drama firmly grounded in reality, Piano Lesson seems haunted by specters of the brutal past -- as haunted as the U.S. still is by the legacies of slavery and Jim Crow. Director Lloyd Richards and a splendid cast give the script the production it deserves. That was not, alas, the Broadway fate...
...told the Faculty in February that Harvard's free-speech policy should not deviate from the First Amendment, he implied that the University had a choice. It could choose to go the way of Michigan, Emory and Wisconsin and ban offensive speech or it could choose to sink or swim with the Constitution...
Political instability at home has undermined the yen as well. Prime Minister Toshiki Kaifu, 59, who is outside the Old Guard of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, lacks the political support to serve as a bold leader. "That poor gentleman," says one Japanese bureaucrat. "They are all trying to sink him. He gets no help." While Kaifu is moderately popular, he ! is not seen as someone who can dramatically improve relations with the U.S. or boost Japan's influence in the world. Says a disappointed financier: "Japan has not emerged as the superpower that it was expected...