Word: understands
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Marines have been difficult all along," Arthur Hartman, who retired only last month as Ambassador to Moscow, told TIME last week. "They are trained for a different kind of duty, and in a place like Moscow, they're young people who don't have the maturity to understand the dangers they face." (See pictures of the rise and fall of Mikhail Gorbachev...
...Japanese products to open Tokyo's markets, so be it. But Henson has no illusions that trade policy alone can solve the U.S.'s problem of regaining competitiveness in world markets. "We have major challenges within our own economy," he says. "We have to cut costs, improve quality and understand market requirements. The U.S. is consuming more than it is producing. We are borrowing money to do it, and we have become a debtor nation. We ourselves have to deal with this problem of overconsumption, or we will be forced to stop...
...local candidates -- because no invitations were extended to him. Jokes one Tokyo academic: "If President Reagan is a lame duck, our Prime Minister is a dying duck." Nakasone probably did not feel any better after U.S. Trade Representative Yeutter told a Senate Finance Committee hearing that he could not understand why Japan was planning to introduce the value-added tax. Replied Japanese Government Spokesman Masaharu Gotoda: "The tax system is our country's internal affair...
...starting saviors are merely that, fantasies. Yet a few contrarians, surveying the fractured and vulnerable fields shaping up in both parties, believe a 1988 nomination may yet go to a heavyweight unsullied by the early combat. Says Eddie Mahe, a Republican consultant: "The rules and dynamics we think we understand from the last few elections don't necessarily apply...
...strong instinct for the civilized life. This does not always mean oysters and champagne. Between her lines, it is easy to read sadness for the lost chivalry and ideals of Western culture. Being young and shielded by her status as a refugee from Bolshevism, she does not always understand the demoralizing power of barbarism. "Missie," as she is called by family and friends, is puzzled by the way "the royals" dissociate themselves from Germany's leaders and their methods. "If they don't stand up for their beliefs, where will all this...