Word: control
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...Times have changed. A new chapter in Chinese history has started. Modern democracy, a manifest destiny, is moving from the west to the east. People have learned that, instead of yielding their power to a handful of people to act under their name against their will, they must take control of their own destinies...
...showed up last week in a bath of warm rhetoric toward Gorbachev -- quite a turnabout from presidential spokesman Marlin Fitzwater's denunciation of the Soviet leader two weeks ago as a "drugstore cowboy" on arms control, long on talk and short on action. In an interview last week with European journalists, Bush insisted that his attitude toward Gorbachev's initiatives was "not begrudging...
George Bush's political gifts include a keen sense of balance: when he finds himself out on a limb, he usually edges back to a less shaky perch. After finally realizing that his Administration's less than enthusiastic reaction to Mikhail Gorbachev's headline-catching arms-control gambits was alienating the NATO allies he will meet with this week in Brussels, the President decided a more positive response was required...
When Wilson takes over the Radcliffe post on July 1, she will have to guide a school that has changed dramatically in the years since Horner was chosen. During Horner's tenure, Radcliffe has ceded control of undergraduate life--academic and residential--to Harvard, while more than doubling its endowment and expanding its research programs...
Responsibility for the bombing remained uncertain. The Syrians, who control West Beirut, blamed Lebanon's Christians; the Christians accused the Syrians. But fittingly, the death of the peace-loving cleric inspired a rare display of unity: Christians and Muslims joined in a one-day nationwide strike to mourn his loss...