Word: pointing
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...abandonment. In its place, he built a structure of government with himself at the pinnacle. The result is the central paradox of his rule: "The more he sought to disperse power, the more he found it necessary to concentrate power in his own hands." But as Doder and Branson point out, "Russia is a country that fervently needs an ideology, a set of beliefs, a religion." Much of the dogma that has shaped the past seven decades of Soviet life has already been abandoned, but what new faith will Mikhail Gorbachev offer his people...
...will go see him myself," Boudreau admitted. "The bottom line is he'd make me laugh, from a sick point of view...
...several other groups are fed up with the lack of governmental attention to the issues concerning them, Yard says. As proof that the current two-party system is "leaving too many citizens out," members of these special interest groups point to the consistently low voter turnout in this country--most often these non-voters are the nation's underprivelged...
...matter how reputable the institution or how safe the procedure, both of my parents objected to the notion of my becoming part of a laboratory experiment. It was not until this point, finally, that I realized what had been bothering me all along was not the fear of my parents' anger, but my own fear of involving myself in this stuff...
...jobs lost are too low. At the same time, environmentalists accused Bush of caving in to the timber industry. "It's a throwback to the Reagan-era environmental politics," said George Frampton, head of the Wilderness Society. "It's 100% politics, 0% science." He may have a point. The Administration wants to amend the Endangered Species Act, expanding the role of the "God Squad" -- a body of mostly political appointees who can carve out exemptions under the act for economic and other considerations. For owls, and other creatures, that is a precarious perch indeed...