Word: timedealing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Almost at the End demonstrates why. A collection of prose and poetry, the book is nicely timed with the reappearance of Yevtushenko, 53, as a prominent spokesman for Gorbachev's liberalization campaign. The new work is theatrical but tame. The targets are either old monsters or the class of unreconstructed...
Like similar charges in the past, the indictment seemed well timed to coincide with tax-filing season, when people sitting down to struggle with Form 1040 have little sympathy for big shots who take advantage of fancy dodges. Tax reform, which went into effect on Jan. 1, is designed to...
But in a cynically timed confession, McLain wrote in Sports Illustrated two weeks ago that he was a cocaine addict during the 1985 tournament, and had been allaying Massimino's suspicions with transparent lies. "I honestly believe nothing ever came of it not because he didn't have enough to...
Certainly the exquisite timing of Gorbachev's proposal is suspect. Coming just two days after the release of the Tower commission's scathing review of the Reagan Administration's bungled arms-for-hostages policy, the offer was sure to appear attractive to an embattled President. Moreover, the announcement seemed timed...
A less cynical reading of Soviet motives suggests Gorbachev moved as soon as he received a go-ahead from the Politburo. There had been hints that the Soviet leader would produce an arms-control initiative at a peace forum in Moscow last month. Gorbachev's colleagues may have insisted the...