Word: seriousness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Klerk still controls all means of negotiation. No serious political concessions have been made, and the president will offer few unless there is some way to protect his white constituency...
Glasnost; perestroika; free speech; open parliamentary debate televised before millions of viewers; the beginning of organized political opposition to the Communist Party; mass strikes and demonstrations by workers and ethnic minorities; serious publications dealing honestly with the nation's sordid history which had been covered up for deades by official lies. And more...
...difficult to argue that commercial television today is largely censored and tightly controlled. It is virtually impossible for serious writers to produce a program for television which would deal with ideas hostile to the interests of the owners of the networks or to corporate sponsors...
...Pressured by a $300 million lawsuit for compensatory damages filed by more than 100 families, Pan Am has subpoenaed records of six U.S. Government agencies including the CIA, the Drug Enforcement Administration and the State Department. The subpoena suggests that Israel or West Germany relayed serious warnings of a bombing to the U.S. -- and that the warnings were not passed on to Pan Am. The Flight 103 families say Pan Am may merely be trying to shift the blame so it can wriggle out of paying huge claims...
...industry Securities and Exchange Commission? Not before hell freezes over, say the auction houses (although Christie's may be wavering a little on the point, since it has no guarantee and loan system to defend). Probably not, say many dealers. But others think the idea is worth serious thought, though none believe it likely to happen while Washington still clings to the conservative catchword of deregulation. Besides, says Eugene Thaw, the doyen of U.S. private dealers, Sotheby's in particular may have enough political clout in New York to defeat a further tightening of the rules...