Word: retarding
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...retard backsliding, Fawzi al-Sultan's planners in Washington are effectively rigging the assumptions. When the group's health expert, or the men from public works, for example, draft their recovery plans, the first question is always, How many people are we supposed to plan for? "When the working hypothesis is 1.3 million, tops," says al-Sultan, "the answers come out in a certain way. Lock those premises in, and the shape of the society will change. Demography is everything...
...Houston, Baker warned Shevardnadze that resorting to repression could damage superpower relations. At the same time critics charge that propping up Gorbachev's failing economy could retard rather than promote reform, especially since the aid is being delivered to central authorities instead of the individual republics. Gorbachev has come under fire for balking at truly radical market solutions, settling for half measures. Critics say he is undermining his commitment to private enterprise by trying to root out the thug-infested black market when he should be encouraging its entrepreneurial spirit...