Word: failed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Goldman explained, "Anyone who wants the Soviet Union to fail, who does not want it to succeed...
...recipe is this: Gorbachev will try and will fail and will be replaced," Goldman said. "I don't mean that personally...
...yeoman farmers, the East European, Russian and Asian peasants were unlikely to own full title to their land or to produce more than their family and feudal overlord consumed. Their impoverished rural existence fostered these attributes of peasant societies: a leveling egalitarianism that prefers to see a neighbor fail in any efforts at improving his lot; envy that a neighbor may be better off, coupled with a belief that he must have cheated; suspicion of anything new, since most changes were for the worst; rampant superstition; and, finally, an unquestioning acceptance of a higher, distant authority, like the "Good Czar...
Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney went further, asserting in a TV interview that "if I had to guess today, I would guess that ((Gorbachev)) would ultimately fail . . . to reform the Soviet economy" and "when that happens, he's likely to be replaced by somebody who will be far more hostile . . . toward the West." In an interview with TIME, an irritated Shevardnadze responded by calling Cheney's statement "incompetent." Bush and Baker promptly disassociated themselves from Cheney's remarks; both stressed that the U.S. wants to see perestroika succeed. In fact, the Gates-Cheney skepticism about Gorbachev's prospects have more...
...Well, if that were to happen, the U.S. people would fail to understand the policy. The world would not understand such a turnaround...