Word: standardization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...expanding process of "de- tabooization." High officials are openly criticized, including government ministers and regional party first secretaries, some of whom are members of the Central Committee. This criticism is not always followed by dismissals, as would have happened in the past, which means that criticism now is a standard for behavior and not a tool of punishment. There have been cases when sycophantic bosses, to curry favor, punished underlings who objected to some aspect of the campaign for restructuring our economy -- and those bosses were in turn severely chastised for attempting to silence dissent...
...some questions about their behavior as citizens. It might even make them think about the responsibility part of freedom." Wrye, who describes himself as a Kennedy Democrat, says he "wasn't remotely interested in doing something anti-Soviet" and charges that opponents of the movie have a double standard. "It's okay in Top Gun for Tom Cruise to shoot down Russian planes. That's much more scary to me, because it is subliminal. Our picture is very different. It is very thoughtful...
...wrong. "Win, lose or draw, I'm going to sail the next America's Cup, the next one and the one after that. As long as I have the fire and the drive, I have the imagination. I have to keep running to stay ahead. I'm the standard...
...well-developed standard for judging the culpability of fiction; libel rulings have been concerned mostly with news reports. Real people have served as models for fictional characters, from Proust's Baron Charlus to Bellow's Humboldt. An author's weave of truth and invention is difficult to unravel, and never more so than in a semiautobiographical work like The Bell Jar, which was first published in Britain in 1963, just a month before Plath committed suicide. The story of a young woman's descent into madness spoke to the rising women's movement as well as the romantic instincts...
...bend more easily to meet the needs of the Communist guerrillas than she will to maintain the loyalty of her troops. It is now common to hear soldiers gripe that the Communist insurgents have got a "free ride" in the media since the cease-fire began last December. Another standard beef: guerrillas are not held accountable for human-rights abuses, but soldiers are. Asks one soldier: "If Aquino can be soft on the ((Communist)) rebels and offer them amnesty, why can't she treat the rebel soldiers in the same...