Word: grandly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...office of governor might have been tragic, if it weren't so funny--and if the incumbent Democratic governor weren't such a star. After embarrassing revelations that Greg Hyatt was seen nude in his office on several occasions and that Royall Switzer had falsified his war record, the Grand Old Party had trouble finding a good old candidate. Eventually, George Kariotis volunteered, but it doesn't make much difference, considering the phenomenal success run up by Governor Michael S. Dukakis in his second four-year term...
...game plan, approved in advance by the Politburo after consultations with Warsaw Pact leaders, that would shape the events of the weekend. The concept was apparently simple. Moscow would % propose such an attractive package of offensive-arms reductions that Reagan would be tempted to pursue the dream of a grand compromise that included some resolution on the Strategic Defense Initiative, rather than stick to the original U.S. goal of a medium-range-missile deal not linked to SDI. If Reagan accepted the bait, as he initially did, the Soviets would be in the catbird seat. Either Reagan would...
...their expectations," says Dimitri Simes, a Sovietologist at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. "Both sides were upping the ante beyond what was realistic for the two delegations. Gorbachev intended to trap the President, but then he became involved himself in the dialogue and allowed the attraction of the grand compromise to divert him from his main ambitions . . . My impression is that Gorbachev is a gambler...
...gamble, it appeared to pay off in Moscow. When Gorbachev stepped off his jet Monday night, he was treated like a conquering hero by the Politburo. They shook his hand in vigorous congratulations in a scene viewed by millions on Soviet TV. Even Andrei Gromyko, the granite-faced grand old man of Soviet foreign policy, was smiling...
...most extraordinary bargaining session in the history of arms control was reaching a crescendo. For almost two days, the U.S. and U.S.S.R. had continued to up the ante. Now, as night closed in on Hofdi house, the "grand compromise" was in sight. But the whole startling package of proposals was hanging on the Soviet insistence that Star Wars research be confined to the laboratory. Ronald Reagan made a last-ditch appeal to Mikhail Gorbachev. He declared he had made a pledge to the American people not to trade away SDI. "Please," Reagan said...