Word: system
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nations negotiate a new trade treaty in time for the June summit. He also vowed to support observer status for the Soviet Union at the GATT (General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade) talks, a move long sought by the Soviets to help integrate the U.S.S.R. into the world economic system...
...Italy. Gorbachev's concordat with the church was no less significant in its way. But there was a crucial difference: as is so often the case with Gorbachev, he achieved his reconciliation without humiliation. As he had done before, the Soviet leader let the ongoing crisis of the Communist system serve as an opportunity to push his nation toward a broader vision of the future. "We need spiritual values," Gorbachev declared the day before the Vatican meeting. "We need a revolution of the mind...
...midst of his glory days, Alan Bond's sloop Australia II captured the America's Cup. In the same determined manner, Bond, 51, has run up more than $3 billion of debt in recent years while capturing a global empire of properties ranging from half of Chile's telephone system to Wisconsin-based G. Heileman Brewing. To lighten his crushing debt load, Bond is now shedding properties almost as fast as he acquired them...
...vote until 1971, and they have become a more powerful presence in the workplace and in politics. "There's a male network to which women don't belong," says industrial psychologist Anita Calonder-Gerster. And their new prominence has not dissipated their hostility to the old-boy military system...
...down hundreds of enterprises, from huge steelworks to the local Fiat service agency. Not only was the astounding turnout a sharp rebuke to the country's leaders, but it was a warning that a few cosmetic changes within the Politburo would not satisfy the demands for a more democratic system...