Word: stage
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...morning of June 24, Tenth-Grader Dmitri Predkov, 17, stood up to answer a question in his history class at Moscow's Middle School No. 734. The question: "Is perestroika ((Gorbachev's economic and social reforms)) a natural stage in the development of Soviet socialism?" Dmitri's answer: No, it is not. He added the tart opinion that some people say otherwise "only because Gorbachev is head of our party." A classmate, looking sporty in a black leather tie, was equally bold in discussing the loosening constraints on % Soviet citizens. People of all stripes, "even fascists," he insisted, should have...
...host, who was widely rumored in Poland to be out of the Soviet leader's favor. "I regard Comrade Jaruzelski as my great friend," he said at one point. "I will tell you Poles directly you are very lucky to have such a man at this complicated stage of Polish history...
...boosters still talk about such advantages. But, with the Democratic Convention finally about to bring what they see as certification of Atlanta as a national city, they also have the next stage to worry about: becoming an international city. Actually, there was a period about ten years ago when Atlanta featured as its motto the World's Next Great City, but, an advertising man who had to work with the motto told me, "it had a credibility problem. If you told someone in some place like New York that Atlanta was the World's Next Great City...
That slogan presumably can't be featured a second time, though. In fact, Atlanta hasn't actually settled on a slogan for its next stage. In a Wall Street Journal piece last winter, John Helyar suggested that in the spirit of New York as the Big Apple and New Orleans as the Big Easy, Atlanta might be known as the Big Hustle, but the suggestion was not received warmly. The Chamber is temporarily using the slogan of the Convention and Visitors Bureau: "Look at Atlanta Now." It emphasizes the contemporary partly because a remarkable number of visitors, presumably oblivious...
Though the center is located just a few floors above the Rev. Jesse Jackson's campaign headquarters, Galen insists the Republican presence is "not confrontational." Nor is the Grand Old Party trying to steal all the limelight, Galen maintains. "It's their show. They've got center stage. All we're doing is peeking out from behind the stage...