Word: deale
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...take ROTC up on its offer of big bucks for a few years of service. What should appall Professor Wylie is not those students who are financially forced into ROTC if they want to attend Harvard, but rather the government whose misplaced priorities force students to enter the dastardly deal...
...American diplomat George Kennan was struck by the enigma of an empire both yearning for its rightful place in the modern world and clinging to the enfeebling insularity of its past. "The Anglo-Saxon instinct is to attempt to smooth away contradictions," he wrote. "The Russian tends to deal only in extremes, and he is not particularly concerned to reconcile them. To him, contradiction is a familiar thing. It is the essence of Russia...
...computer were to design the ideal President to deal with Mikhail Gorbachev, it might whir and buzz and come up with George Bush. As Ambassador to the United Nations, Bush got to know the folkways of the world forum where Gorbachev has been concentrating much of his genius for public diplomacy. As the U.S.'s man in China, Bush had a crash course in Communism and geopolitics. As director of Central Intelligence, he learned what KGB networks and Soviet missile warheads could do to the West on a bad day. As Vice President, he met as many General Secretaries...
...deal, subject to approval by Eastern creditors and the U.S. Bankruptcy Court, followed lengthy negotiations with Eastern's parent Texas Air Corp...
Lorenzo said that if the unions agreed to the deal the nation's seventh-largest airline could resume flying within 24 hours. He also said the airline intended to file a reorganization plan that would pay creditors 100 percent...