Word: despairs
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...various republics. As the Congress of People's Deputies meeting approached, Soyuz and conservatives generally seemed to be gaining influence with a frustrated Gorbachev. That should have been no surprise. The reformists' strength had always resided in an evanescent popular mood that has swung from euphoria to near despair as political breakdown has been mirrored in economic chaos and shortages of everything. The conservatives, in contrast, command the hard, physical tools of power: troops, tanks and vertushki, the direct telephone lines to the central authorities that are the lifeline of the government bureaucracy...
...field during three years in Vietnam, agrees. "Newsmen had direct access," he says, "unlike what is happening now. You walked with a platoon or a company and covered things on the ground, not from headquarters." That kind of reporting gives the most accurate perspective on the drama and despair of war. It is surpassed only by the much more satisfying job of reporting the peaceful resolution of any conflict...
...profitable share of the market, and the public sector gets what's left. The problem with this particular lemon is that it tends to sour us on the possibility of real reform. Even those who crave a national program covering everyone are wont to throw up their hands in despair: Nothing works! It's so complex! Maybe in 100 years...
That has sent Walesa hurrying to mend fences with Mazowiecki, who resigned as Prime Minister one day after his humiliating third-place finish. Mazowiecki fell victim to voter despair over the nation's economic chaos. Poland is undergoing the most radical conversion to private enterprise of any East European country. But Poles are furious over the attendant disruptions, including a 200% annual inflation rate and an increase in unemployment from almost nothing to more than 1 million of the nation's 18 million workers. In their frustration, many sought scapegoats for their plight: former Communists, Jews and even the leaders...
...talk business, do interviews and check out the street action. Their old neighborhood in East Los Angeles is impassable. "We had a strong sense of community," says Perez. "But with all the drugs and gangs, the neighborhood is turning into a battlefield." The Neighborhood, playing off images of despair against cameos of humble valor, is part front-line report and part benediction. "We're really starting over," Hidalgo says, and it sounds like they have found their way. In The Neighborhood, they've come up with a fresh direction and, with it, their finest hour...