Word: lesson
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...power in March 1985. He pensioned off Sergei Lapin, who for 15 years had been guarding the airwaves from ideological "deviation" as chairman of Gosteleradio, the State Committee for Television and Radio. With a vigor that invited comparisons to John F. Kennedy, Gorbachev set about teaching the country a lesson in glasnost. He began to go on "walkabouts," mingling with the masses and speaking his mind, as if unaware that cameras were recording his every move...
...lesson on Saturday afternoon was a simple one: persistence pays...
There was plenty of drama in another tank a couple of subway stops away as swimming began to churn, but what we saw most vividly at first was not theater; it was a delightful geography lesson...
...Bush may think of his grandchildren as "the little brown ones," it's not necessary to proclaim that loudly to the President and the rest of the American public. Tact, which is merely a milder form of lying, is essential in politics, and it's time Bush learned that lesson...
...think it matters more the way we won than the fact that we won," Harvard Coach Tim Wheaton said. "We worked hard the whole game, won loose balls. I think we learned the lesson of the Holy Cross game that we have to come out and play strong right from the start...