Word: terme
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Fiscal conservatives lashed out at the proponents of the spending plan, accusing them of worsening the state's fiscal crisis and paving the way for a massive, long-term tax hike...
...There is now on the books two major pieces of anti-discrimination legislation, and I think we can build on them," the five-term legislator said...
Gorbachev has been in power for four years. In some ways, he was running for a second term in last Sunday's election of a new Congress of People's Deputies, seeking a mandate for his three-pronged pitchfork of perestroika (economic restructuring), glasnost (openness) and demokratizatsiya (democratization). Not since the Bolsheviks were trounced in the Constituent Assembly races of November 1917 had citizens of the Soviet Union been given the chance to vote in a real national election. This time some highly visible keepers of the Bolshevik faith fared poorly. But for Gorbachev the results could...
Soviet psychiatry began to take shape in the 1920s and drew especially on the work of physiologist Ivan Pavlov (whose experiments on conditioning, particularly with dogs, gave the term Pavlovian response to the English language). His followers largely rejected the work of Sigmund Freud and other Western theorists and looked for physical rather than psychological causes of mental problems. That emphasis led Soviet psychiatrists to rely on drug treatment, work therapy and re-education rather than psychotherapy...
...would simply be tragic [if Webster won] because then the states could outlaw abortion outright or make it so only the wealthy could afford it," Julia L. Shaffner '91, a group member, said. "The concept of having to carry a pregnancy to term is repulsive...