Word: leader
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Admissions officials said they did not know whether the dissident leader planned to apply for admission as a regular undergraduate. They said he plans to take courses in English, mathematics, Chinese and the social sciences...
Dental scholars consider the noted periodontologist a national leader in the field of dental education. Specifically, he is credited with more fully integrating dental education into medical scholarship...
Gicewicz is a quiet leader. His position--middle guard--is one of the most anonymous on a football team...
...daring reform campaign, many East Europeans are setting out to draw new conclusions from old lessons. If most Communist countries share a perception of the political and economic forces that have brought them to this juncture, they lack a common vision of where they are going. Acknowledged Solidarity leader Lech Walesa: "Nobody has previously taken the road that leads from socialism to capitalism." Poland and Hungary are pressing ahead with sweeping reforms that promise to disprove the theory that totalitarian regimes cannot change. Czechoslovakia, East Germany and Bulgaria tinker with old formulas in hopes they can stave off a reckoning...
...allies are at one another's throats: the Czechs and Rumanians denounce the Polish reformers for sowing chaos, the Poles denounce the Czechs for trampling human rights, the Hungarians denounce the Rumanians for mistreating their Hungarian minority. Gorbachev's phone conversation with Rakowski last week suggests that the Soviet leader finds better promise in an uncharted future than in a failed past. But if Eastern Europe's summer of hope gives way to a winter of discontent, Gorbachev's go- with-the-flow optimism may bump up against an iceberg...