Word: voided
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...same time the old Soviet Union stood for noble values--egalitarianism and security, to name two--and sometimes even achieved them. What is so tragic about the vanquishing of the old-line Soviet Communists is that those values are gone, chucked into the void with gulags and five-year plans, replaced by the potential-laden, but equally heartless, god of the Free Market. The leaders of the New Russia and its 14 Dwarves are showing an appalling willingness to adopt Western capitalism hook, line and sinker without much consideration of what it means...
...bottom line may be that the void in Cambridge politics that Noble is campaigning to fill does not exist in the minds of most other politicians and voters...
...Helms and many other Americans, victory in the cold war has its frightening aspects. The Soviet implosion could leave a destabilizing void in international affairs. "If there are 15 different republics, who sits at the U.N. Security Council?" wonders Robert Hormats, a former Assistant Secretary of State for Economic and Business Affairs. "If there's no Soviet Union, who's the other ((Middle East peace)) sponsor? We've never seen the dissolution of an empire of this magnitude." Indeed, as a senior White House official put it last week, "it's a case of the U.S. deciding what it means...
...proposals his colleagues are submitting to him. At least one acting agency head, dismayed by what he found, will recommend "sweeping changes" in the offices he visited. Another department head, Martin Walsh of general services, came away from a month in juvenile services -- "an area that was a real void for me" -- eager to help that overburdened agency compete for what he calls "the scarce bucks...
...fewer than 400,000. Enrollment at his Bible college is down by two-thirds, to & 450, and several floors of a classroom building have been leased out. An intended 12-story dormitory, half a block from his showcase Family Worship Center, stands abandoned in mid-construction, its windows void of glass, tall weeds crowding its rusted entryway. Swaggart can still draw the faithful: a couple of weeks ago, 1,200 people attended a three-hour Sunday service, at which he sang, preached and pleaded for money. But Swaggart attorney and co- defendant William Treeby concedes, "We're suffering." Jeffrey Hadden...