Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Times have changed. Today responsibility for the world is borne by all countries, great and small. There are aspects of the Yalta agreement that must remain intact. It is difficult to look into the future, but I do think Malta is a meeting of historic significance...
...hold on to the Soviet Union's most strategically and economically valuable ally now that all the satellites have been freed from their confining orbits, Gorbachev warned that "any attempt to extract selfish benefits from these events ((is)) fraught with chaos." Kohl's next and far more difficult task is to convince Gorbachev -- and many who silently think like him -- that chaos is just what his plan will avert...
...block. However, Altman's problems went deeper, in part because it had acquired a dowdy, passe image. The company might have been turned around by the right owner, but Herscu, saddled with $1.5 billion in debts, had neither the cash nor the vision to pull off such a difficult renovation...
...extremely difficult to win these cases," she said. "Most times the judge accepts the universities' arguments...
...expected to stand still and take the punishment. Unlike in China and in Algeria, where in the past year peaceful demonstrations were broken up by a hail of gunfire and murder, the Israelis are reacting to the violent protests with considerable restraint. Dealing with such protests is a very difficult, but necessary, task that can never be done "peacefully." That is not to say that no abuses have occurred, but what can one really expect when every day for a period of two years 20,000 soldiers have battled violent demonstrators. Anytime that that many people are in a combat...