Word: develop
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Well, they are conducting their electoral campaign in our country. Last December they still assured us that we would be able to develop our own democracy. But you can't do anything against a dam breaking. The water spills over you. In our first elections, we of the New Forum have been put at a disadvantage. It's obvious. Those with ties to West German parties have the logistics, whatever is needed to run a campaign. We have only private sympathizers. Nor can I bring myself to look into the television camera and say the same short sentence 20 times...
...exit the Soviet Union is not necessary. But we should have independence in economic, cultural and political matters. Azerbaijan can feed itself, but it still owes the center 7 billion rubles. This dependence is a bad habit. Each region should take account of itself and develop a contractual relationship with Moscow. Now is the time to show we are an independent republic, and later our children will decide whether or not to leave the union altogether...
...policy they put forth was a vague collection of homilies on the inadmissibility of secession and the importance of economic integration. "Our party," said Gorbachev, "is in favor of a large and powerful federal state." While republics should aim for "self-management," they should remember their duty to develop "the whole country." The tendency toward independence, he said, would "have exceedingly negative consequences for those who embark on that path...
Many of the Government's properties are white elephants of the most unwanted breed. One such mammoth is the 24,000-acre Banning-Lewis Ranch, situated just outside vastly overbuilt Colorado Springs. A developer paid $200 million for the parcel in the mid-1980s as the future site of several planned communities, but now the land is virtually useless because the city has de-annexed it. As a result, anyone who wishes to develop the former ranch can no longer count on municipally priced water...
Peterson said that the division intended to usethe new money to support a visiting lecture seriesin hospitals, support fellows and develop moremedical ethics teaching materials...