Word: good
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Gorbachev told the masses the Soviet and Chinese peoples enjoy a very good friendship," Xinhua said...
...consecutive years of failing to propose one. Her inspirational certainty is oblivious to popularity, allowing her to produce a government budget that's actually in large surplus. Fiscal policy is one area of governance where the wrong principles are often better than no principles at all. That is one good reason even a Reagan-Bush skeptic can admire...
...directions. Thatcher has taught the British people self- discipline. Reagan and Bush have taught Americans self-indulgence. After the past three American presidential elections, it is unthinkable for an ambitious politician to call on the citizenry -- or any sizable subset of it -- to make the slightest sacrifice for the good of society or its own future prosperity. Thatcher, by contrast, positively delights in delivering bad news and stern sermons. "After almost any major operation, you feel worse before you convalesce. But you do not refuse the operation." That typical bit of Thatcher rhetoric is not the kind of metaphor that...
Although Shevardnadze enjoys a good joke, he is not a backslapper and insists on calling his aides by their formal names. A man of meticulous appearance who has been known to cast a flirtatious glance or two at the ladies, Shevardnadze is not a stickler for protocol; on entering a negotiating room, he unfailingly makes the rounds of all present, shaking hands and engaging in small talk. "You don't feel that he is full of his own importance," says a West German diplomat. "He's a really pleasant fellow to do business with...
Baseball heroes are selling their good names for cash at autograph marts. The old signings over dugout railings are fading as promoters keep the kids moving in assembly lines of dreams...