Word: terme
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...challenge is to change gradually the prejudices that these regimes have cynically cultivated since taking power. Ways must be found to teach people that a gain for one is not necessarily a loss for another, that long-term improvements may require short-term sacrifices, that some changes are for the good, that it is their responsibility to keep local authorities in line. Only that sociological change will make possible the economic and political reforms that Gorbachev, Deng and other reformers insist are necessary. Thus far, no Communist regime has found a way out of this dilemma. Lenin once said, "Give...
...January, after the mayor began his campaign for a fifth term, the Los Angeles Herald Examiner warned that it would publish a series of tough "challenges" on the city's problems, ranging from gang warfare to freeway gridlock. "We'll try not to let ((Bradley)) forget he's participating in an election, not a coronation," promised the newspaper. That threat did not sit well with Bradley. The Herald Examiner found itself shut out of the mayor's office: no press releases, no phone conversations, no personal contact -- an invitation, if there ever was one, for reporters to start scraping away...
...Dubious" certainly was the term for fresh disclosures that the city paid $400,000 to a trade task force run by a business associate of Bradley's. The Securities and Exchange Commission, moreover, is looking into the mayor's ! holdings in stocks, real estate and junk bonds; parts of Bradley's portfolio were handled by Drexel Burnham Lambert, whose deposed junk-bond king, Michael Milken, contributed to Bradley's political campaigns...
...measure of the mayor's long-standing reputation for honesty that the shocker did not prevent his re-election to a record fifth term last month (though this time by a narrow margin), but he has resolved to exonerate himself. Bradley has appointed a commission to rewrite the city's ethics rules in a "clearer and cleaner" fashion, and last week told the city council, "While not a legal mistake, my decision to engage in outside employment was an error in judgment because of the possible perceptions it created; for that I accept responsibility. I assure you that this experience...
...mother, rather than the fetus, are primary. Says Leslie Harris of the A.C.L.U.: "Those who want to rush in and criminalize the behavior of women are pushing a different agenda than prenatal care. If they can persuade the courts that a woman who chooses to carry a child to term has obvious legal obligations, how could she at the same time have the right to abort the fetus...