Word: prosperity
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some problem. Fyodorov, 44, is co-chairman of the eight-member cooperative that opened Moscow's first such venture last March. He and his seven partners, most of them experienced cooks or waiters, are investing in a business that will prosper -- or fail -- without government interference. "We never imagined we would do this well," says the energetic, chain-smoking co- chairman. Cafe 36 Kropotkinskaya, as they named the restaurant (bureaucrats wanted it to be called Cafe Cooperator), is a consequence of Mikhail Gorbachev's reforms legalizing small-scale private enterprise. One of the goals is to improve the country...
...should not underestimate what an unusual accomplishment this has been. University presidents constantly try to please all of their constituencies because their institutions cannot prosper without the support of faculty, students, and alumni, not to mention foundation officers and government officials. It is all the more remarkable, therefore, that Ted has been willing to speak and speak again for ideas and ideals which he knew were unsettling and unpopular...
...world did end and without my book review or anything resembling the odious practice of playing with another man's art, his soul, to please thousands of brain-addled air junkies who gulp the stuff like it could make their lives worth living. No, live alone, fair book, and prosper without the words of praise I can shower upon you in my giddy bout of pseudo-creativity...
...collapse as Paul Erdman envisioned ten years ago in his geopolitical thriller The Crash of '79. And where is the return of runaway inflation that he hypothesized for the mid-'80s in The Last Days of America (1981)? Both scenarios have, for the moment, been upstaged by the selective prosperity of Reaganomics. But like many well-known experts, Erdman continues to prosper by being wrong. His writing career was in fact launched by an international banking blunder. That was in 1970, when he was vice chairman of the United California Bank in Basel, where officials participated in some ruinous commodity...
...assets as a national candidate is that he has learned that the people who vote Democratic and think of themselves as Democrats do not for the most part live in Cambridge, Newton and Brookline. They are not liberal tinkerers and social experimenters. They like government when it helps them prosper, but not when it threatens their power or independence...