Word: going
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...political terms, he came from nowhere: a well-bred landowner's son and former governor from the tropical hinterland who compared himself with Jimmy Carter. The similarities do not go far: like Carter, he ran against the federal government, tilting at its waste and mismanagement, but when it came to down-and-dirty campaigning, he seemed more like Richard Nixon. The combination worked: last week, after a heated runoff election, Fernando Collor de Mello, 40, won 43% of the vote, vs. his leftist opponent's 38%, to emerge as Brazil's first popularly elected President in 29 years. Scheduled...
...millions of other Americans -- bought the videocassette recorder with the one-month, eight- program calendar timer and standby one-touch record. Once you have mastered the owner's manual, a lifetime task for some, you just shove in a tape and press a few dozen buttons. What could go wrong...
...also knew a good business deal when he saw it. "America's gone fat and sloppy, and for someone who's willing to go out there and kick ass, there's a lot of opportunity," he says. In the case of Mustang Meadows, Day and his two partners anticipated earning a $50,000 annual profit from a huge tract they assembled by buying 22,000 acres for $1.4 million and leasing 10,000 adjoining acres from the Sioux Indians. The money would come from IRAM's contract with BLM and the state of South Dakota, which pays the sanctuary...
...their country's devastated economy. Yet they are counted under the ominous rubric of 4.25 million men under arms in the Warsaw Pact. So are over a million troops, most of them draftees, from the East European states. They include some of the same Hungarians who chanted, "Russians Go Home!"; the same Czechoslovaks, many of army age, who thronged into Wenceslas Square and exorcised the Politburo by clinking their key chains; and the same East Germans who found a better way to invade the Federal Republic throughout the year...
...Some go further, contending that the $2 trillion Reagan defense buildup of the 1980s made possible the opportunities for ending the cold war in the 1990s. In other words, had it not been for the whole panoply of post-detente Western pressure tactics, starting with the imposition in 1974 of the Jackson- Vanik Amendment linking improved U.S.-Soviet trade to increased Jewish emigration from the U.S.S.R., there would be a different man in the Kremlin today. Or at least there would be a very different Gorbachev, one who would still be suppressing dissidents, sending refuseniks to Siberia, invading neighboring countries...