Word: lockstep
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Chinese have been trying to normalize relations with Eastern Europe since 1977. Until now, Soviet leaders have blocked the way by insisting that Moscow's clients march in lockstep with improvements in Sino-Soviet relations. All that may be changing. Observed a Western diplomat in Peking last week: "This trip and Jaruzelski's constitute a major Soviet concession to the Chinese...
...minutes later, another order was yelled and the members of the Intimidating Presence once again jumped to attention, took a few steps forward and spun on their heels, marching lockstep back to whence they came...
...years since Thompson wrote his love/hate article about the Derby, times have changed for both the race and the country. As if in lockstep with the nation's lurch to the right and Reagan's expropriation of sport for political currency, the thoroughbred industry has undergone a speculative explosion. The Derby is only its most visible manifestation...
...Administration's attempts to get everyone into lockstep also extend to the Federal Reserve Board. Regan last week blamed Chairman Paul Volcker's tight-money policy for slower economic growth. Though retail sales appear strong, Regan lashed out at the Fed for preventing a year-end shopping boom. "This is not a great Christmas," contended Regan, "and the reason is that people just aren't spending because the credit terms are so high." Regan said that a study was under way about how to get the independent Fed under some form of Administration control...
Such a show of independence from Moscow is surprising in an East bloc nation known for marching in lockstep with the Kremlin. But while Honecker has eased travel restrictions he has added a new extension to the Berlin Wall just behind the Brandenburg Gate, as if to indicate that there are clear limits on how far the new togetherness can go. TIME Senior Correspondent Frederick Ungeheuer spent two weeks crisscrossing East Germany in an effort to understand the ambivalence of a country striving to be both Communist and German. His report...