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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...PBHA has suggested that the organization stop teaching people to swim. They have simply suggested that the organization stand up for a better society. The issues it confronts are too important to too many disadvantaged people to do otherwise. Long-term social progress requires politics...
Despite Gorbachev's plea for urgent action on the economy, a long debate over procedural matters threw the Congress behind schedule, delaying Premier Nikolai I. Ryzhkov's economic report. That report apparently will be based on a long-term plan developed by his deputy, Leonid Abalkin, that includes making the ruble convertible, selling off unprofitable state enterprises and developing a stock market...
...luxury of a quarterly publication is that one can judge major issues over the long term, as well as address potential ones," she said...
...contained several controversial measures, many of which addressed long-term spending on the state's "budget busters"--five mandated programs that make up $4.2 billion dollars of the $12 billion budget...
...phone call, "We do not wish to spurn our friendship with the American people. But I believe it is morally wrong for Ambassador Platt to take sides because it will mean more bloodshed." Saving democracy may be its own reward, but for the U.S., this rescue could have long-term costs. Now that Washington has used force to prop up the Aquino regime, will anything less do the next time a threat arises...