Word: beyond
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Persian Gulf in order to hold down the price of gasoline." Impatient with the inadequacy and dithering of the budget debate, he predicted, "We will pass a budget that will reduce the deficit by $34 billion, the economy will continue to weaken, and the deficit will grow beyond $300 billion." Feather-ruffling talk...
...Beyond the borders of his native Nebraska and outside the domains of the political cognoscenti, Kerrey, 47, is known, if at all, as actress Debra Winger's sometime boyfriend. But since taking his seat in the U.S. Senate 21 months ago, J. Robert Kerrey has emerged as an intriguing figure in a capital where blunt talk is a scarce commodity that attracts lots of attention. Explains Democratic pollster Harrison Hickman, who has worked for Kerrey: "He isn't caught up in status quo thinking. I don't know if I have seen anyone quite so fearless." There is of course...
...this contretemps occur, and what are its aftereffects? In answering these questions, Gordimer moves beyond individual problems toward the anguish of a society on the brink of change. Sonny, the father, was a teacher who ran afoul of the white authorities by allowing his students to demonstrate support for a black boycott of schools. Arrested and detained, Sonny is finally convicted of subversive activities and sentenced to two years in prison. But he has gained allies in his struggle, including Hannah Plowman, a white woman who represents an international human-rights organization...
...Atomic Bomb. The connection between events leading to Los Alamos and an obscure domestic tragedy in Kansas City is not readily apparent -- except to the author. Each story, writes Rhodes, "focuses on one or several men of character who confront violence, resist it or endure it and discover beyond its inhumanity a narrow margin of hope...
...Beyond sharing power at top levels, the labor agreement established some 165 work teams, which have been given more power than assembly-line workers anywhere else in GM or at any Japanese plant. They are allowed to interview and approve new hires for their teams (average size: 10 workers). They are given wide responsibility to decide how to run their own areas; when workers see a problem on the assembly line, they can pull on a blue handle and shut down the entire line. They are even given budget responsibility. One team in Saturn's final-assembly area voted...