Word: overlying
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When Edelman has tried to operate companies rather than simply auction off their parts, the results have been just as dismal. Example: Datapoint, a San / Antonio-based minicomputer maker. Since Edelman took it over in 1985, the company has gone through three presidents and $135 million in losses. Yet he...
A critical moment in the transformation of U.S.-Soviet relations came on Nov. 16, just over two weeks before the meeting in the Med. That was the day Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney announced that because the Warsaw Pact was becoming "a very different animal," the U.S. could reduce its...
The pattern continued for months. Something extraordinary would happen in the East -- down would come the barbed wire along the old Iron Curtain, off would go the light in the red star over the parliament building, home would go trainloads of Soviet troops, in would come a non-Communist prime...
The atmospherics and rhetoric along the Potomac became more appreciative during the summer, but what Marxists (there are still a few left in Moscow) call the "objective realities" of U.S. policy remained pretty much unchanged. A few days before the Pentagon cuts, an adviser to Gorbachev seemed to be expressing...
But the 148-member Central Committee, by now painfully aware of the revolutionary spirit in the streets, responded by orchestrating an internal purge. The offensive was led by former Prime Minister Lubomir Strougal, 65, who was replaced last year by Ladislav Adamec, 63. Over the past six months, Strougal, who...