Word: toward
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...must guarantee that the process of evolving toward sovereignty in Estonia doesn't jeopardize perestroika in the Soviet Union," says Arnold Green, 69, a veteran government official in Tallinn. "Otherwise, it will be a catastrophe...
...Today the Chinese are talking to the Russians, and we are talking to the Russians. But we don't talk to each other. The suspension of high-level contacts has served its purpose in expressing our outrage at the crackdown. Now we must once again adopt a policy toward China that serves our geopolitical interests, and such a policy will require high-level contacts...
...nothing detrimental to Soviet security interests. The Kremlin greeted the opening of the Wall as "wise" and "positive," in the words of Foreign Ministry spokesman Gennadi Gerasimov, who said it should help dispel "stereotypes about the Iron Curtain." But he warned against interpreting the move as a step toward German reunification, which in Moscow's view could come about only after a dissolution of both NATO and the Warsaw Pact...
...McBride, senior vice president of Common Cause, the self-proclaimed public interest organization, hailed the action as "moving toward a time when we will have government fully compensated by the public, and not by special interest influence money...
...Smokeout, despite its low-key approach, is characteristic of changes in attitudes toward smoking, said Joanne Schellenbach, a spokesperson for the American Cancer Society "We're in the middle of real social change right now," she said...