Word: toward
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Voke has insisted that Dukakis take the lead in working toward an agreement, saying legislative quarreling has created a "crisis of confidence...
...feminist revolution, who shaped their lives according to its ideals, shake their heads and wonder. Call them the "Yes, but . . . " generation. Yes, these women in their 30s and 40s are feminists, but things have not worked out as expected. It is hard for them not to feel resentful: toward society for not coming to the aid of women in their new roles, toward the movement for not anticipating the difficulties. "We were promised that we could do it all and we would be as successful as men," says Carolyn Lo Galbo Goodfriend, 39, a mother of a five-year...
...what's real" to "airy" theorizing. Yet as he prepped for the toughest challenge in his diplomatic career, this weekend's meeting in Malta with Mikhail Gorbachev, there were tantalizing signs that the President was coming down with a case of "the vision thing." As he described his attitude toward the Saltwater Summit last week, "I'm thinking of it rather philosophically...
...reduction in the Bundeswehr by 1991. Almost simultaneously, Hans-Dietrich Genscher, the West German Foreign Minister, arrived in Washington and let it be known that any U.S. plans to modernize short-range nuclear weapons in Europe are out of the question now that the two Germanys are groping toward reconciliation. "No German government will discuss any weapons system that might result in nuclear weapons being targeted at Dresden and Leipzig," said a Genscher aide...
...stay," he told factory workers near East Berlin. "I didn't take over just to push for change for a few weeks." Krenz said he was ready for an "unsparing investigation" of the party's mistakes and transgressions. He and the beleaguered Politburo also took a first step toward some form of power-sharing by proposing round-table talks on reform with non-Communist parties and legal opposition groups; the agenda would include changing the constitution, which currently gives the Communists the monopoly of power...