Word: partnerships
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sure, tossing extra money into the pot without follow-up thought and planning amounts to offering easy applause more than productive partnership. But the relative sum assigned is a symbol of priorities. Is the priority for Poland unchanged? Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki's success may depend on his ability to deal with Poland's economic situation -- quickly. Can the U.S. really afford to let him fail for lack of assistance? It is odd, to say the least, that George Bush appears to have been as comfortable with the Communist status quo as with this historic breakthrough for democracy...
...surprised -- but the defenders counted on two allies to save them. One was General Mud, who traditionally emerged from the September rains that regularly converted the Vistula River into an impassable barrier and the vulnerable fields of central Poland into a morass. The other ally was the Anglo-French partnership, which bound the two great powers of the West to defend Poland by armed force...
What propelled Bush was his belief that history is calling him and the leaders of Poland and Hungary to forge some kind of new partnership quickly. | But as he listened to the confessionals of Communists declaring their system a failure and searching for a peaceful way out, he realized that he had to move gingerly...
...signed up author I.F. Stone after singing Homeric verse to him on the phone -- in Greek, of course. (Wylie later handled Stone's unlikely 1988 best seller, The Trial of Socrates.) Three years ago, Wylie persuaded British agents Gillon Aitken and Brian Stone to form a partnership. Wylie has brought Susan Sontag and other distinguished authors to the firm, yet many of the big names on his list are either one-shot autobiographers or recruits from his London partners...
Their means of evening the score is a House ethics committee inquiry into Gingrich's finances, focusing on a book deal that is at least as unorthodox as Wright's. When Gingrich co-wrote Window of Opportunity in 1984, he formed a limited partnership and gathered $105,000 from 21 conservative supporters to underwrite the project. Window sold only 12,000 copies, but the lost investments turned into tax write-offs for the backers. Gingrich's wife Marianne was paid a salary of $11,500 for her work in helping establish the partnership. Democrats filed a formal complaint about...