Word: would
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...American women learned that "having it all" meant doing it all, and some look back wistfully at the simpler times before women's liberation. But very few would really like to turn back the clock. As America heads into the '90s, the battle over abortion rights is regalvanizing feminism, amid a slow awakening to the realization that there's still a long...
...code would outlaw all outside earned income, including honorariums, for decision-making officials. Former officials could not lobby city departments for one year after leaving the payroll, and would be permanently barred from acting as lobbyists or advocates on matters directly related to their government employment. Candidates for city office would be forbidden to raise campaign funds until nine months before an election, and partial public funding would be available for hopefuls who agreed to spending limits...
...most sweeping of the panel's 30 recommendations concern financial disclosure. Elected officials, high-ranking civil servants and candidates for city office would have to make public the exact amount of their income and investments, including their homes, and even list the names of their stockbrokers. Lobbyists who received more than $1,000 a year to influence city officials would have to disclose their transactions each quarter. Taken together, the proposed regulations could affect as many as 1,500 of Los Angeles' 45,000 employees, as well as an undetermined number of lobbyists and candidates...
...worst, the growing shortages of energy and food this winter could wreak social mayhem. "If we don't see improvement in the stores, we will soon see riots in the streets," warns a top Soviet criminal lawyer. "Anything could spark it. And the government would have to suppress it with force." Among the signals of trouble...
Gorbachev's time may be running out. Western economists believe, contrary to official Soviet statistics purporting to show growth, that the economy is actually shrinking. What can the West do to help? Industrial nations can offer advice and much needed economic expertise, but massive financial aid would be ill advised and probably not what the Soviets want in any case. Abalkin has already mentioned that the Soviets would like to be given the trading status of most favored nation, along with more freedom to import high-technology goods. But by and large, Soviet economists understand that they have to solve...