Word: accustomedness
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Long accustomed to deference and heavy staff support, Haig campaigns more like a front runner than a financially strapped dark horse. He careers through the South behind police motorcades. His staff tries to rent official-looking black limousines. In New Hampshire, Haig prefers suites in cozy inns to more practical...
That exchange has never been reported in the Soviet Union, nor was Gorbachev's confirmation to Tom Brokaw last month that he discussed "Soviet affairs at the highest level" with Raisa. If it were known that Raisa had once contradicted her husband before a foreign leader -- well, that could only...
The little fellow on the left was four years old $when he sat for this photo with his grandparents $in the Russian village of Privolnoye. Today, at $56, he is General Secretary of the Communist $Party of the U. S. S. R. and one of the world' s $most formidable...
Yet Americans are not spendthrifts out of pure whimsy or decadence. Over the past several decades, U.S. consumers have been influenced by fundamental social and economic forces. To begin with, the Viet Nam era bred a mood of pessimism and cynicism that led many young people to live for today...
The world is now accustomed to the contrast between Gorbachev's style and that of his thuggy Soviet predecessors -- brutal, cunning, stony-faced -- but it still marvels at how the sterile Soviet system could produce a leader so articulate and reasonable in tone if not substance. Too adroit to be...