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Word: standing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...radical mandate of the century. From the start, he proves himself a master of both style and substance. Instead of the traditional ride to Downing Street on his first day of work, he opts for an egalitarian stroll. To both insiders and outsiders he pledges openness and honesty. "We stand on our own two feet, and we tell the truth," he instructs his press secretary. "Original, don't you think...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Red Harry's Revolution | 1/16/1989 | See Source »

...infiltrated his Cabinet. His own intelligence chief is ferreting out scandals, real and invented, in an effort to bring down his government. In A Very British Coup, an engrossing new Masterpiece Theatre presentation, Perkins starts out trying to make a revolution. He ends up making a stand for the quaint notion that governments should be run by the people elected to office...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Red Harry's Revolution | 1/16/1989 | See Source »

...into a two-counter shop near my apartment. One bin holds small yellowish apples that have played host to a worm or two. Ten minutes later I find better apples at a private stand. I wait in line three minutes and buy a dozen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Shopper's Day | 1/16/1989 | See Source »

...keep me from entering. But others push past her, so I join the rush. A refrigerated bin holds brown paper bags filled with ground meat, half a dozen scrawny chickens and four packages of beef -- fatty, mostly bone and covered in grimy cellophane -- priced at $1.60 per lb. I stand in line for 14 minutes and buy a 2-lb. package of beef. There had been some sugar that morning, an employee informs me, and there may be some in the afternoon. I pass an outdoor state fruit stand that will not open for nearly an hour. Seventeen people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Shopper's Day | 1/16/1989 | See Source »

...good sign: a long queue just inside a hardware store. Obviously, something scarce is available. It turns out to be laundry soap, brown waxy bars that people must grate into washing machines. I join the line, No. 68. "We never used to stand in line for soap," says Alexandra Vasivna, a Moscow pensioner and No. 69. "I don't know what's happened." I hold her place while she sees how much is left. "Nine cartons," she reports. "I don't know if we'll get any." A man in front grumbles, "We would if people didn't hoard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Shopper's Day | 1/16/1989 | See Source »

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