Word: failings
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Even before this week's confrontation, there was a growing sense of urgency in the West that Yeltsin's reform campaign would fail without more foreign help. Clinton responded by scheduling a U.S.-Russian summit in Vancouver for April 3-4, promising innovative aid programs and calling for an emergency meeting of the Group of Seven industrial countries to map out broad-scale Western assistance. It all may be too late. "We have known since the time of Gorbachev that the Russians don't give a damn about the prestige of their leaders," says Gernot Erler, a senior German legislator...
Just as the ceremony ended, the sun came out, an omen that did not fail to cheer Rosovsky. "It's a terrific sign. Everything is fine...
Ronald Reagan wasn't our most successful presidential candidate in history because he was the Great Communicator. He won two landslide victories because he was the Great Optimist. But whenever Republican rhetoric or behavior contradicts the cultural expectation of optimism and success, as it did in 1992, we fail...
...Kantor. With the cold war over, they are more inclined to give economic and trade issues priority over foreign policy. They also view Japan and the European Community as equals in all but military terms and expect equal treatment for U.S. exports. Under the new regime, if other countries fail to honor agreements on market access, the reaction will be swift. "We don't believe it's particularly negative to take action," says Kantor. "We may have confrontations or fights, but that's natural . . . It doesn't mean you have to have a trade war. That's silly...
...elders would have us believe that we...are doomed to fail, not in the least by our supposed grammatical ineptness," wrote Frederick...