Word: ripely
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...timing of reforms. The society is ripe for change. If we step away, the society will not agree to a return. The process must be made irreversible. If not us, then who? If not now, when...
...secret of Therese's overnight success was simple: she had a genius for loving Jesus. "Passing by me," she wrote, "Jesus saw that I was ripe for love. He plighted His troth to me and I became His." No self-denial attended this betrothal, only the deepest and most radiant devotion. Therese was a vibrant teenager, bursting with the juice of sanctity, and in Christ she found the ideal outlet for her holy passion. She reveled in his ascetic good looks, his impossible demands, his gentlemanly reticence. For Therese, God was the perfect man -- an amalgam of loving husband, righteous...
...warm, embracing acoustics have enhanced performances by artists as diverse as Rachmaninoff, Heifetz, Callas and the Beatles. But New York City's Carnegie Hall, built in 1891 and perhaps the nation's most famous musical showcase, has long been ripe for a major renovation. With Violinist Isaac Stern, president of Carnegie Hall, leading the effort, a seven-month, $50 million face-lifting was undertaken this year. Among the improvements: an enlarged lobby, a cream-and-gold repainting of the main hall, new seats and elevators, and a modern air-conditioning system. The reopening of the hall last week was celebrated...
...July 3, 1985, David Kimche, then director general of the Israeli Foreign Ministry, came to see McFarlane in Washington. Kimche suggested that the time was ripe for the U.S. to establish communication with elements in the Iranian government who were willing to consider a new relationship. (Kimche has said publicly that McFarlane had approached him earlier with the same idea.) Kimche had already been in touch with the Iranians through a shadowy network: Khashoggi, Manucher Ghorbanifar -- an expatriate Iranian arms dealer -- and Israeli arms merchants were all part of it. The Israeli government, said Kimche, had confidence these Iranian contacts...
There have been other clues that the government thinks the time is ripe for accommodation. At Poland's Tenth Communist Party Congress last summer, Jaruzelski unveiled a plan for a national "consultative council" to advise the government on economic and social policy. The body is to include leaders of the country's powerful Roman Catholic Church and politically moderate intellectuals. Two weeks ago, Premier Zbigniew Messner took the unprecedented step of withdrawing a piece of economic legislation from parliament for revisions after it had been publicly criticized as a blatant attempt by bureaucrats to undermine proposed economic reforms that Jaruzelski...