Word: trapped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despite its best intentions, Mexico has fallen into the same economic trap that ensnared Nigeria, Iran and other developing nations that found themselves suddenly oil-rich in 1974. Instead of using its wealth to pay for a program of slow and steady economic development, the country plunged headlong into accelerated industrialization. For a while, the campaign produced impressive results, creating nearly 1 million new jobs per year and propelling Mexico to the rank of the world's fourth largest oil producer, with an output of 2.7 million...
...years ago, the fondest hope of Carole Ely and Lore Harp was to escape the bored-housewives trap and do something really bold like, say, opening a travel agency. When Lore's husband Bob, a scientist at Hughes Research Laboratories in Malibu, Calif., suggested that they think big and take a plunge into computers instead, they responded with what amounted to uncomprehending stares. Neither knew the first thing about the exotic world of computers...
Sontag's generation, they were looking for some solution that was going to be great.and the leading candidate was Marxism-Leninism. Stalin was an aberration, yet understand. We don't want to fall into the same trap; leftists coming of age in this era should only be looking for something better.in so doing we would he wise so discount Sontag's motion that communism is a monolith, pretty much the same wherever it rears its unchained head. As she herself eloquently proves, North Vietnamese communism circa 1968 is not the same as North Vietnamese communism criea 1980; certainly...
...glamour kept coming after that, but so did the trouble. There were technical foulups: Ed Asner and Elizabeth Taylor were momentarily trapped in the folds of a falling curtain, like big game in a tree trap. The pace slowed: "I can't read my monitor," James Earl Jones rumbled like an Old Testament prophet rebuking his flock. Most of all, the pretension showed: birthday candles were lit on a cake that looked like the Tower of Babel, as discomfited luminaries dished up decades of encapsulated world history in which the Actors' Fund got featured billing ("A Russian named...
...says Richard Davies, who, as U.S. Ambassador to Poland from 1972 to 1978, knew Rakowski well. "But you had to know what he meant-as long as democracy was granted from on high, not from below, because that threatened the authorities." Rakowski may have been caught in the classic trap of Communist intellectuals, the discovery that what seems plausible in theory-in his case, the liberalizing of Communism-often does not work in practice...