Word: seriousness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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From their earliest days, Bush and Dukakis were very different. Bush was the outgoing, eager-to-please son to whom athletics and grades came easily; Dukakis was a serious, hardworking achiever. Bush always wanted to be liked, and would do just about anything toward that end; Dukakis was willing to settle for respect, and may have even preferred it. Bush joined every social club that would have him (and most would); Dukakis spurned them...
...reflected in your activities around the world. Until we do, it behooves us not to change our current policy.' " If the Soviets someday suit action to words, a mutual reduction in conventional forces as well as nuclear weapons could finally save both sides some serious money...
...moments of candor, even the most hardened gardeners will try to explain the redemptive potential of their calling. "When I first got here, I wouldn't talk with anyone," says Ted Stoddard, a tall, slender man with a serious mien and a gift for apricot trees. He is serving a life sentence for murder in Muskegon, Mich. "Prison has a tendency to make you angry. It's like quicksand. Your rights can be jerked at any time." But the garden provides him with a rare escape. He now teaches other inmates, though carefully, hesitantly. They will learn more through their...
...says, "their parents had a quarter acre with a power mower and a hedge clipper. They have 600 sq. ft. behind a condo and 90 different kinds of plants in it." But he does not disdain those who crave his lovingly designed tools made of second-growth ash. "Serious gardeners are like serious writers, painters, dancers," he says. "For people who view gardening as a craft, buying the best tool they can get is absolutely essential...
Nevertheless, Sharansky's memoir has no happy ending. The brutal treatment of prisoners he describes has scarcely been tempered by the reformist policies of Mikhail Gorbachev. If the General Secretary is serious about extending glasnost and perestroika to all Soviet society, he will see to the publication of Fear No Evil at home. That would be a powerful impetus for restructuring the inhuman penal system he inherited from his predecessors...