Word: eastern
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Berlin commercials are among an outpouring of ads in which Western businesses seem to be welcoming Eastern Europe into the capitalist world. A Shearson Lehman Hutton commercial shows Slavic women wearing U.S. running shoes and a teenager riding a skateboard past a hammer-and-sickle sculpture. The tactics have even been adopted by the other side: one of the products to extol improved East-West relations in its ads is Stolichnaya, the Russian vodka...
...fulfilling Bush's stated goal: making a personal connection with Gorbachev. To Bush's relief, Gorbachev played a low-key role, thanking the President for his "prudent and cautious" rhetoric. The two leaders engaged in lengthy chats about "Western values," an expression Bush uses to describe the changes sweeping Eastern Europe. In one 30-minute segment, Gorbachev asked Bush to drop the phrase from speeches, because it implied the changes were a victory for the West. Accordingly, the President has started speaking of "democratic values...
Meeting at East Berlin's Dynamo Football Club Gymnasium, the 2,714 delegates overwhelmingly nominated as party leader Gregor Gysi, a reformist lawyer who at 41 becomes the youngest Communist boss in Eastern Europe. Only three months ago, Gysi came under withering attack by hard-liners for representing the opposition group New Forum in its bid for legal status. Now, said Gysi after winning election, the Communists in East Germany will be merely "one party among others...
When picturing a former Olympic-level athlete, one hardly envisions a Harvard graduate who spends his time practicing yoga and studying Eastern philosophy...
...conservatives win, the decade will go down as a triumph for the American way (translation: capitalism). Referring to the vast changes in Eastern Europe, conservatives will say that the wildly expensive military buildup at the beginning of the century paid...