Word: movers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stands -- her carriage immaculate, of course -- poised for the future. It should be no surprise to her, so meticulous are her Svengalis' strategies. Houston denies she is corseted by the evening gowns, the narrow gauge of her songs or the charges of her advisers' puppeteering. "I was the primary mover of my career. I told my people to give me a plan and I'd follow," she says. "And it worked. I traveled and smiled, and it worked...
Cerezo in recent months has also become a prime mover in Central American efforts to find a negotiated settlement to the war in Nicaragua. Two days before De la Madrid arrived, President Jose Napoleon Duarte of El Salvador slipped unannounced into Santo Tomas, some 30 miles south of the capital, where Cerezo has a country retreat. The Duarte visit, which no doubt included discussion of the region's problems, was part of Cerezo's intricate diplomatic skein. Last month Cerezo met with President Daniel Ortega Saavedra in Nicaragua. The Sandinista leader reiterated his refusal to negotiate with the U.S.-backed...
...began meeting on campuses ranging from Harvard to Berkeley to draft a two-page letter that was eventually signed by students from dozens of schools across the U.S. The letter, though phrased in polite language, expressed strong disapproval of the ouster of Communist Party Chief Hu Yaobang, a prime mover in China's liberalization movement. The students warned that the expulsion from the Communist Party of prominent intellectuals associated with the reform movement was not "conducive to building a system of democracy. We fear the reoccurrence of the Cultural Revolution...
...third candidate, President Khamene'i, is the only one who has remained unaffected by the U.S. affair. He has been the prime mover recently in Iran's somewhat improved relations with the Soviet Union and the resumption of natural-gas exports to Moscow. This is not likely to strengthen his chances for leadership. Since 1984, the Khomeini regime has arrested, imprisoned or executed most of the leaders of Tudeh, the Iranian Communist Party. The continued Soviet occupation of Muslim Afghanistan has intensified Iranian opposition to Moscow. Afghan refugees have poured into Iran bearing tales of Soviet brutality, and Iran...
...belief, Greeley never said "Go West, young man." He uttered a sentiment along those lines that was later paraphrased into immortality. But Greeley did found the Tribune in 1841; his thundering editorials against the spread of slavery helped set the climate for the Civil War; he was a prime mover in the creation of the Republican Party. Greeley's death in 1872 might easily have been followed by that of his now leaderless Tribune...