Word: telling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Mikhail Gorbachev has never had to run for office, at least not in the conventional sense. But he too is a natural campaigner, as anyone who saw him pick up a child in Red Square and tell him to "shake hands with Grandfather Reagan" would testify. He was running a kind of countercampaign, seeking to present himself as a radical reformer who is revitalizing the Soviet Union and toning down conflict between the superpowers -- but also as a confident leader who would not get pushed around by any Reagan sermonizing...
...would come in and see about financial aid for her latest venture, and I would tell her, `I don't see how you will be able to do that'," Illingworth continues. "Then she would pop in two or three weeks later and tell me she was headed for Leningrad or Berlin, or somewhere else...
...help my Soviet family with the little things," Rodriguez continues. "Going over the shopping bill, and explaining what an AT&T bill is. Some teach them with books; I try to help with the day-to-day living. I tell them to watch TV. It's the quickest way to learn a language...
...only applied to three schools--Stanford, Harvard, and Northwestern," Anderson says. "I did those [Stanford and Northwestern] applications very half-heartedly just so that I could tell my guidance counselor that I did apply to some other schools. But he kept telling me, `You have to apply to a safety school...
...Truong '89 likes to tell a story about a future vice chairman of ARCO Oil Company who, when taking a law exam, came upon a case he knew nothing about...