Word: glads
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...opportunity to work with two very distinguished gentlemen. They invited me to join them. I decided that the opportunity for professional growth was better there than I thought it would be doing what I was doing so I took a deep breath and left. And I'm very glad I did. I missed teaching, but I used to construct opportunities for teaching along...
...wish we'd drop the notion of propaganda war. It's clear that President Gorbachev has a greater sense of drama than does Secretary Baker. He also has more ideas. It's a pity that we have not analyzed their substance and tested his sincerity earlier. I'm glad that the Administration is finally taking seriously the latest Soviet proposal for sweeping reductions of their conventional forces in Europe. The truth of the matter is that for the same economic reasons as the Soviets, we too need disarmament. Eisenhower was right to say the problem of defense...
Smith said he was glad that this award recognized students who excelled in more than academics. "This award isn't based solely on academic achievement and it's nice to have something like that here," Smith said...
...meet the economic requirements: a hefty recording contract, a telegenic personality and the ability to pull in a crowd both at home and on the road. In the U.S. a conductor must also subject himself (there are no women on the short list) to endless rounds of glad-handing and fund raising, while in Berlin he must have the political skills of a Franz von Papen to deal with a fractious orchestra and a powerful city bureaucracy...
...glad she kept the news to herself...