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Despite Gorbachev's original inclination to take quick and drastic action, he hesitated to go as far as some had demanded, and initiated the bargaining session that sharply reduced the scope of the emergency plan. After the vote, Gorbachev seemed to recognize that he had presided over a new chapter in Soviet history. "I think we've done the right thing," he said. Even the more moderate measures may help cool the rash of strikes. More important, one of Gorbachev's crucial reforms seemed to be working: an elected legislature had debated and bargained its way to a sensible compromise...
...Club is doubtless...a membership club traditionally viewed as private," one document states. "However, as is recognized in the increasingly expansive scope of the public accommodation statute, such discriminatory men-only clubs significantly and adversely impact the economic, political and professional advancement of women...
...After the withdrawal of Vietnamese troops the war will continue," Hun Sen told reporters Sunday. "As to the scope of the war, we think it will depend on foreign countries," he said...
Finally, in the wider scope of the investigation, what is Harvard's role among the targeted colleges since it seems to have played a primary role in the sharing of information...
Still, it is an interesting and provocative set of considerations which Fabricating Lives offers. Just as the vast panorama of American experience represented in the lives of autobiographers traces at once a personal--and a societal--odyssey, so does the book attempt a scope of analysis impressive only for the brashness...