Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fashion the old revolutionary could hardly have intended, the Soviet economy has become today a battlefield of explosive ideas that threaten nearly every precept and practice of Communism in the past generation. Whether conservatively toeing their Marx or boldly advocating such heretical Western-style reforms as the primacy of profits, every important planner, apparatchik and economist in Russia is caught up in Communism's greatest debate since Stalin set backward Russia on its cruel-but successful-forced march into the 20th century industrial world...
Russia's flirtation with market mechanisms comes at a time of swift and startling economic change across the whole Communist-bloc spectrum. Hotel lobbies from Warsaw to Bucharest are jammed with Western businessmen scrambling to get into Communist markets. The "imperialist agents" are getting an interested reception in ways unthinkable a few years before. Negotiators for West Germany's giant Krupp empire last week were tidying up a deal to build plants in Poland that will be German-owned but will employ Polish labor, and Hungary and Rumania have expressed lively interest in similar permanent, paying capitalist boarders...
...million, you can turn Memorial Drive into an expressway, but do we need it?" asked Robert A. Boyer, a professional city planner. Boyer explained that merely building the underpasses, at an estimated cost of $7 million, would only serve to speed traffic at the three intersections involved. River St., Western Ave., and Bolyston St., and that other improvements--including the probably widening of the Drive and limiting access to the drive from the City's streets--would be required to increase traffic speed along the whole roadway...
Under a 1962 legislative act, the MDC is obligated to build the underpasses at River St., Western Ave., and Boylston St. Although the money is available to build them, Whitmore must decide when to begin construction, and it is believed that he will delay until the underpass opponents have exhausted all possibilities or repealing or modifying the original authorizing legislation...
They will claim that the underpasses--to be built at River St., Western Ave., and Boylston St.--Will not solve the problem of traffic of congestion on Memorial Drive and will only destroy valuable open areas of the Charles River bank...