Word: historicizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Walesa proved equally adept at hard-nosed political bargaining. After eight days of tense face-to-face negotiations with Polish Deputy Premier Mieczyslaw Jagielski, he won a historic agreement that made Poland the only Communist country to have independent trade unions. It was a daring deviation from Marxist-Leninist orthodoxy...
Today, even if the "Polish disease" does not immediately infect the other satellites, the Kremlin has reason to worry about the cohesiveness of its colonies. Since the end of the Stalin era, the countries have developed in differing and, for the Soviets, sometimes troubling ways, guided by their own historic...
But Walesa's fortunes changed astonishingly when he scaled the gate of Lenin Shipyard last Aug. 14 to seize the helm of an angry strike movement. He became the workers' natural choice to head the independent union that emerged from that historic confrontation. Looking back over his long...
Business, however, ran into a wall. Between April and June, the economy declined at an annual rate of 9.6%, the fastest drop since World War II. But then, with the arrival of summer and the acceleration of Carter's re-election campaign, credit controls were loosened and money became...
More than 60 University properties nominated last month for the National Historic Register may never make that list because of a bill passed this month by Congress and expected to be enacted within a week by the president.