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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Since his arrival here, Cook says, he has been trying to familiarize himself with his new stomping grounds. "I've spent much of my time just making progress in knowing the elements of the arboretum's structure," Cook says. "I want to try to make the Arnold Arboretum more financially sound and reach out to the community...
Scientists working out of the arboretum's facilities are currently doing work on the flora of all of China and North America, as well as work on other countries' flora. The professors working on the China flora project came to Harvard in March to discuss its progress...
...Administration needs and deserves time to prepare its approach. The policy review is still a work in progress. But it would be a shame if it ended up being a rationalization for American old thinking and an all-purpose, platitudinous prescription for dealing not with Gorbachev but his successor...
...much as a decade to start showing results, since the shift in approach really amounts to a second industrial revolution. The old ways of doing business will be just as hard to replace as the rusting machinery. "It is not that they aren't going to make some progress, but it's much more difficult than starting out with a clean slate," says John Hardt, a Soviet specialist at the Congressional Research Service...
...Moscow residents, Mikhail Gorbachev's approval rating stands at 79%. Buoyed by the success of his U.S. visit, Gorbachev enjoyed a popularity rating of 92% in December. By March, those who expressed doubts climbed from 5% to about 12%, reflecting the reality of shortages and dissatisfaction with the progress of perestroika...