Word: ideals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Jiang. The beefy Shanghai official does not have any national power base or ties to the army, which makes him no threat to anyone in the hierarchy and thoroughly beholden to those who appointed him. As a tough- minded disciplinarian and agile implementer of policy, he is an ideal Secretary. "Deng is once again very much a hands-on leader," said a senior British diplomat...
Bush -- and the West as a whole -- should go farther. Poland and Hungary are striving toward a societal ideal based on more than economic and democratic reforms. The components: a legal structure that guarantees individual rights and the existence of independent institutions -- such as churches, trade unions, newspapers, political organizations, professional associations, private businesses -- that prevent the state from exerting a dominating influence in everyday life. Mark Palmer, America's energetic Ambassador to Hungary, argues persuasively that the U.S. should follow Western Europe's example in shoring up this evolution by creating a web of social, political, business and economic...
...didn't get along with my roommates, who had seemed ideal at first glance. We didn't fight, but we just didn't have much in common. I spent less and less time in my room, less and less time with my classmates in general...
...ideal professor of poetry does a good deal to promote young poets at the university," said Lansdale. She noted that while Auden served as university poet, he held periodic office hours in a popular cafe and let aspiring young Oxford poets show him their work...
...m.p.h. during the day and ties up at night, so that passengers may eat and sleep in peace without missing any of the scenery. Guests are well advised to pack carefully: shoes with nonslip soles, much film, a copy of Madame Bovary, binoculars and five fewer pounds than their ideal weight. This is, after all, the province of dense cheeses, Calvados, orchards and plump, happy cows munching the grassy slopes and thinking buttery thoughts...