Word: somethingness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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"If you knew for sure that Gorbachev was going to be there for four years, eight years, 20 years, you could draw up a policy that would respond to his flexibility and would probably mean a brand new relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union, something we really...
But although the selection of Vorenberg's successor has so far overshadowed the activity of a planning committee, formed last February, the committee's work may prove more influential in the long run. "The new dean may have special interests they [sic] want to push, but the long-range planning...
That will still leave Quayle with the problem of overcoming his bad public image. His strategy: to make himself increasingly useful to Bush; build on that relationship to win the respect of other Administration leaders and then members of Congress; and trust their confidence eventually to be reflected in the...
The Cuban missile crisis, which seemed done to death on its 25th anniversary less than two years ago, is skillfully re-created. The show combines interviews with participants (including, thanks to glasnost, an aide to Nikita Khrushchev and another official who was the Soviet ambassador to Cuba at the time...
Every four years Americans remind themselves that, as Reagan loved to say (Tom Paine too), "We have it in our power to start the world over again." Reagan was exaggerating, as usual. But, as usual, he was on to something: capitalism's genius for what Joseph Schumpeter called "creative destruction...