Word: hardly
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...very moment when the Soviet President seems to be retreating from democratic reform. "I want perestroika to succeed," Bush declared flatly. But Shevardnadze acknowledged a "certain instability" in Soviet society, igniting fears that a bad winter could prompt a retreat to more authoritarian tactics. Gorbachev recently appointed hard-liner Boris Pugo as Interior Minister and enlisted the KGB to crack down on black marketeers, whom some in the West view as the Soviet Union's fledgling entrepreneurs...
...farmers argued, could shut them out of the huge Soviet market. But farm- belt lawmakers complained that the credit guarantees did not go far enough: Senate minority leader Robert Dole of Kansas had hoped for at least $3 billion. Trade experts note that because of Moscow's shortage of hard currency reserves, the U.S.S.R. needed the credits simply to match its normal level of U.S. imports...
...people for a month. With a sense of irony and shame, war veterans in Leningrad find themselves awaiting CARE packages from Germany nearly 50 years after the city's population was virtually starved in the siege. Many believe Leningrad is suffering severe shortages these days at least partly because hard-line Communists are trying to undermine the democratically elected, reform-minded city council...
...always the physical part of homelessness that is hard: home and homelessness are also ideas, emotions, metaphysical states. Home is all the civilization that a child knows. Home is one of nature's primal forms, and if it does not take shape properly around the child, then his mind will be at least a little homeless all its life...
...increases 25%, as it has during the past few billion years, changes will automatically occur in factors like the rate of cloud formation to keep the surface temperature relatively stable. The feedback loops appear most valuable when they are turned off, as they were when I played in the "hard game" mode. Suddenly, rather than "playing" God, I found myself working overtime to keep my oceans from boiling away, my jungles from bursting into flame and my populations from suffering yet another mass extinction. SimEarth may turn out to be Gaia's best advertisement. If God had to adjust...