Word: reals
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Such a free-for-all may now be only a gleam in the eyes of the Yeltsinite radicals. Serious competition for the Communists is still probably a long way off. (Of course, the way events move these days, that could mean several months.) But the principle of real democracy has been established; Gorbachev has dragged his comrades, many of them kicking and screaming, across a Rubicon...
...Senate Finance Committee last week. U.S. Comptroller General Charles A. Bowsher described how the Government moved $52 billion from the Social Security trust funds, as well as $71 billion from other Government trust funds, to give the impression that the 1989 federal deficit was $152 billion. The real figure: $275 billion. "The growing reserve is merely an illusion," Bowsher declared...
...exact science. Roughly one time out of 20 the typical pollster's finding will fall outside the stated margin of error. And even that assumes a flawless sample that will be exactly representative of the whole population and a 100% response rate -- conditions that are never met in the real world. Accurate polling also supposes that the questions are unambiguous, the interviewers perfectly interchangeable, and that the answers are freighted with the same meaning the analyst believes they have. These conditions too are virtually impossible to satisfy...
...Times report on polls carried by others? "These polls were part of the equation," says Clymer. "People were talking about them." In short, though the Times had little confidence in the surveys, polls have assumed such a central roll in elections that ignoring them was not a real option...
...many words. Moscow party boss Yuri Prokofiyev, who was a member of the committee revising the platform, reported that the debate last week over property was so intense that "it took hours just to write one sentence." Sometimes the differences appeared to be more semantic than real. Instead of "private" property, for example, the document was amended to read property derived from "individual labor." The new easing of restrictions might allow for the emergence of small, privately owned businesses or permit factories to form their own private production units for the manufacture of, say, tools or farm implements...