Word: beginnings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bloc more anxious to consume than to produce," says Hans-Heinz Kopietz of the International Institute of Strategic Studies in London. The sooner Comecon is scaled back or abandoned -- and many experts believe Moscow will acquiesce in this to help its own economy -- the sooner the East Europeans can begin adapting themselves to competition in the world market...
...Noriega probably knows more about what is in our CIA files than anyone in the Justice Department," says Richard Gregorie, a former Assistant U.S. Attorney, who drew up the Miami indictment against the general. "He knows what to ask for." The asking is likely to begin early in a pretrial process that could go on for a year or more. Only documents that relate directly to the drug charges can be introduced into court, so much of the most provocative material concerning Noriega's services to the CIA may be beyond the reach of his attorneys. But if the government...
...famous talents under the same roof manage the egos, the stresses? She replies with a laugh, "A lot of our sentences begin, 'I completely understand that you, too, are having a rotten time, but . . . ' We read each ; other's things. We talk about them." A London critic comments that "living with Pinter has been a terrific influence for the better on her writing...
...Principle will permit economic inequalities only to the extent that they benefit the worst-off members of society. Income and wealth must be redistributed to the poor from more advantaged citizens up to the point of diminishing returns--that is, until the harmful "supply-side" effects of heavy taxation begin to undermine the economic prospects of the lower classes themselves...
Rawls assumes that all citizens begin with an equal right to share in the world's material goods, and his principle permits departures from that equality only when the poor themselves are benefitted, or at least not harmed. The interests of society's least fortunate members can never be sacrificed for the sake of those already better off, since this would violate the democratic principle of treating all citizens as equals...