Word: controller
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...class is overwhelmingly left of center politically, with only one in five Harvard alumni and one in 10 Radcliffe alumnae claiming to be Republican. The class overwhelmingly supports the legal right to abortion, sanctions against South Africa, gun control and higher taxes to support public education...
...Everyone remembers where we stood in the mid-'80s. The arms race was gathering momentum. The nations of the Third World were in a terrible plight. Regional conflicts constantly threatened to get out of control. Enmity kept the world permanently disturbed and waiting for disaster, for global explosions...
...Union, the democratic tide has swept other countries, especially those with closer ties to us. Naturally, developments took a different course in each of these countries. But they also had a common logic, with a dramatic increase in the social and political activity of citizens seeking to gain genuine control over their lives and the policies of their governments...
...itself much more democratic. This will enable it to be revived as a powerful, organized political force, a force that our society and people need, and that will help to move perestroika forward and bring people together. That's particularly important at a time when the decentralization of state control coincides with some centrifugal tendencies...
...disclosed last week by the Washington Post, were promptly confirmed in public congressional hearings. The difficulties seem sure to complicate immensely a review under way of how many and what kind of nuclear weapons the U.S. should deploy in the light of easing cold-war tensions and prospective arms-control deals with the Soviets...