Word: generality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...onion domes of Moscow. Strolling around Red Square, talking to priests, writers, students and refuseniks, toasting his hosts at gala dinners, the President was unmistakably campaigning -- primarily on behalf of American- style human rights but also, and somewhat confusingly, on behalf of his opposite number and sometime adversary, the General Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party...
...long divided the U.S. and U.S.S.R., however, that is no small achievement. As Reagan put it in his Guildhall speech, "To those of us who remember the postwar era, all of this is cause for shaking the head in wonder. Imagine, the President of the United States and the General Secretary of the Soviet Union walking together in Red Square, talking about a growing personal friendship." Even when summits end without any breakthrough on arms control -- even if, as Gorbachev said, they leave a vague sense of missed opportunity -- the fact that they now seem almost a matter of course...
...Government data. Says Thomas Juster, an economics professor at the University of Michigan: "This kind of activity doesn't involve a major cost. It's a small-potatoes operation in terms of what the Federal Government does. But it also doesn't have any political attraction to the general public." Complains Henry Kaufman, the famed financial forecaster and former chief economist of Salomon Brothers: "The Government has not given a high enough priority to improving the quality of compiling economic data. We really do not cherish people who are in the business of collecting statistics." Unless funding is increased...
Reagan: "Mr. General Secretary, we know that on matters of great importance we will continue to differ profoundly...
...Theoharis believes foreign policy agitation may already have reached its peak, she does not believe activism in general is dying out. She says students are working for social and political changes closer to home, where students can make a visible difference--like the one sought by Lisa J. Schkolnick '88, who has charged the Fly Club, one of Harvard's nine all-male final clubs, with sexual discrimination...