Word: system
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...response to their persistence, Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci appointed a "Green Ribbon" Committee this summer to investigate the possibility of establishing a system of minimum rents for the city's rent-controlled apartments...
...economic reforms will not work unless they are radically expanded. As Andrei Sakharov put it, "In the absence of radical reforms in the Soviet system, credits and technological aid will only prop up an ailing system and delay the advent of democracy...
...question his sincerity. He is profoundly sincere in wanting to rescue the Soviet system from a terminal illness. He has been bold and courageous in pursuing that goal. We should help him -- but only if his reforms go far enough to have a chance to succeed and if, as a result, the Soviet Union becomes less repressive at home and less aggressive abroad...
...Only a respite from the strains of the competition as well as an opportunity to address their internal problems and modernize their system. That is what Gorbachev and the people around him are hoping to accomplish...
...most somber note at the session was struck in assessing the state of the Soviet Union. Soviet panelist Andranik Migranyan, senior research fellow at Moscow's Institute of Economics of the World Socialist System, warned that after five years of perestroika, "our economists say we have yet to hit the bottom. The people are acutely aware of the gap between words and deeds by the government. We feel we might be entering a period of chaos." Already, Migranyan warned, a loose coalition of forces -- disgruntled members of labor bureaucracies, ethnic Russian nationalists and members of the Communist elite, or nomenklatura...