Word: approach
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Burmese were likely to believe him. For one thing, the new regime flatly ordered striking government employees to return to work by Oct. 3 or face dismissal, hardly the sign of an accommodating approach by the country's new rulers. For another, Saw Maung, 59, is a faithful follower of Ne Win, 78, who is strongly suspected of continuing to pull the strings behind the scenes ever since his resignation last July. The Burmese have not forgotten that Ne Win also promised elections, soon after he seized power in a 1962 coup, and that he never delivered on the commitment...
...issues -- none more clear- cut than on the question of how to provide for the millions of Americans without health insurance. Where Dukakis pointed to his recently unveiled program that would require that all private businesses provide coverage for their workers, he totally ignored Bush's claims that this approach might have hidden costs of up to $35 billion or $40 billion. Yet Bush, for all his concerns about a "kinder, gentler nation," seemed hamstrung in posing a credible alternative. At one point the Vice President said somewhat helplessly, "It's a terrible problem, but I don't want...
...bring about such long-term changes, Verba said Harvard must take a more activist approach to updating its extensive library system, a network that currently includes 98 separate libraries and is the world's largest private collection...
...Cares?: Minuteman quarterback Dave Palazzi, who threw three touchdowns against the Crimson, takes a rather lackadaisical approach when it comes to learning about an opponent's offense...
...superpower kaffeeklatsches have generated some new respect for the shy but persistent Perez de Cuellar, whose steady, closed-door approach to diplomacy is now bearing fruit. Both sides in the Iran-Iraq conflict say it was only because they trusted Perez de Cuellar that they were ultimately willing to talk. Says an Iraqi diplomat: "He is a man of his word, and he does not take sides...