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Word: confidentally (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Only the young and the supremely self-confident could view such a task with equanimity. For as Michael Korda sagely observed in one of his treatises on modern success, "Desks can tell us a great deal about people's power quotient." Another year shackled to a black vinyl Daily Planner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: The First Crisis of the New Year | 12/26/1988 | See Source »

The Soviet leader also showed that with the magnetism of his personality and the crackle of his ideas, he remains the most commanding presence on the world stage. He is the one performer who can steal a scene from Ronald Reagan, and he did; as they viewed the Statue of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Gorbachev Challenge | 12/19/1988 | See Source »

This is the most impressive of the cutbacks, since it includes roughly half the Soviet tanks based in the three satellite nations (Poland, conspicuously, was not mentioned). "No matter how you slice it, Gorbachev can't make these tank cuts in these areas without seriously affecting their offensive capability," said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crunching Gorbachev's Numbers | 12/19/1988 | See Source »

New Democracy leader Constantine Mitsotakis is confident he will emerge as the next Prime Minister. Unlike Papandreou, who came to power promising to pull out of the European Community and NATO as well as to remove U.S. military bases from Greece, Mitsotakis leans toward the West. "This is going to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hanging It Out in Public: Papandreou's peccadilloes | 12/19/1988 | See Source »

Reagan has rarely been more genial, confident of what he was saying and uninformative than in this half-hour, which nudged aside 30 minutes of Bill Cosby on NBC, an intrusion safe only for a retiring politician. Reagan never liked the press conference, but he learned to use it. Bush...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: A Full-Dress Finale | 12/19/1988 | See Source »

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