Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Reggie's teachers say he did try, he struggled to overcome a third-grade reading level, fought off the exhaustion of practice and in the end succumbed to the realization that he could not catch up. "He was hoping against hope," says Jack Carmichael, who heads the school's social sciences program. "Goddam, he deserved it. He wanted to have the initiative to make up the deficiency, but I'm not sure he could ever have made it up, short of taking three years and going back to high school...
Clay Center's aging population is symbolized by the skyline of the federally financed senior-citizen housing on the town's west side. The eight-story red brick apartment buildings are the only high-rises on the horizon. "Our big industry is Social Security," says Thomas Lee, president of the Union State Bank. "Fully one-third of our checking accounts are senior-citizen deposits." The aging process has also led to a leadership vacuum, as older business people retire from civic life. And the town's young people show no inclination to stay. When a visitor asked a class...
Eastern Europe's unpredictable volatility also has implications for the West. If Communism does shuffle slowly offstage as a failed experiment in Poland or Hungary, there is no guarantee it will be replaced by democracy. Without substantial progress toward economic recovery, the odds are high that social unrest and political chaos will lead to a dictatorship of the left or the right. Yugoslavia too is rent by such severe economic disparities and political tensions linked to strident nationalism that the country threatens to disintegrate into warring provinces...
...agriculture in Poland. But so far the private stake has been small. In the past, the East bloc regimes have disdained such capitalist assistance. Now Western investors worry about instability. "If they want new money and new investment from the West, they've got to create an economic and social climate so Western business executives will sense they're dealing with a stable situation, unfettered by bureaucracy, ((with)) a normal return they can repatriate," says Peter Tarnoff, president of the Council on Foreign Relations...
...either the left or the right, has rarely counted for much in staid and cautious postwar West Germany. But last week, to the shock of the country's political establishment, that dictum was punctured in both directions. In two major cities, West Berlin and Frankfurt, left-wing alliances of Social Democrats and environmental-activist Greens became majority factions. Both cities have also seen a resurgence of ultra-right parties: anti-immigrant Republicans in West Berlin and National Democrats in Frankfurt. The National Democrats, once a refuge of unreconstructed Nazis, gained 6.6% of the vote and representation in the legislative council...