Word: townes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reason is obvious. Boston is a sports town. When teams from the area win championships, from the pros to the high schools, Boston does not forget. The 1989 Harvard hockey team has joined the city's rich tradition--the same one that has immortalized Bobby Orr, Larry Bird...
...said it, not worrying what John would think of a party worker openly acknowledging the existence of a local trade mafia. He knew that in the end, he was answerable only to those living in his town. He was not going to walk away from that responsibility, nor was he afraid of it. He had no reason to hide anything. The times were different. Now you could tell the truth...
...School No. 79 across town, Principal Semyon Boguslovsky sat at a table with a handful of teenagers, each dressed in the blue blazer that most Soviet students wear. When Boguslovsky said free discussion in the classroom was possible on every subject, Volodya, 16, quickly spoke up. His face red with anger, Volodya said, "There is much talk, but nothing has really changed. We are already tired of talking." Instead of silencing his young charge, Boguslovsky said nothing, but his features took on a boys-will-be-boys look of resignation...
...visit to Tambov, a town in the Russian heartland, uncovers far more change than expected and a cadre of new thinkers ready to carry the torch...
...industrial ministries, forced to fulfill their five-year plans, have been slow to relinquish their power. Employees at the giant Uralmash machine works in the town of Sverdlovsk won a victory last year when they successfully protested a state plan on grounds that it called for more heavy machinery than customers needed. But after the workers made their point, Moscow bureaucrats simply sent the orders to a more compliant factory. Said a fed-up manager of another plant at last June's Communist Party Conference: "It's hopeless to fight paperwork. You have to kill off the authors...