Word: waved
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Soviets on arms reduction. The German and American leaders joined in a communiqué asserting that new approaches to the Kremlin depend on "Soviet conduct," especially in Afghanistan, "an acid test of Soviet readiness . . . to exercise restraint." Kohl said later of himself and Reagan: "We are on the same wave length...
...discipline the Soviet Union's unruly and underproductive labor force. Says Breslauer: "There is a feeling in the Soviet Establishment that the system is grinding down and that the Soviet Union now needs a strong man to take charge." Though Breslauer, like most Sovietologists, does not anticipate a wave of neo-Stalinism, he believes that Andropov could easily exploit the prevailing mood. "He has 15 years of experience in the KGB, and his role in helping crush the Hungarian uprising is seen as an accomplishment. Andropov seems to have the capacity for the kind of decisive leadership the Soviet Union...
...effect of the cold war on life inside the Soviet Union was very much the opposite of mellowing. In a new book, Postwar Soviet Politics, Historian Werner G. Hahn, a former CIA analyst, argues persuasively that some incipient but promising trends toward moderation were wiped out by a further wave of purges. The crackdown was in part a reaction to what was seen in the Kremlin as a new menace of "encirclement" and counterrevolutionary "rollback" emanating from the outside world...
...survey by Market Data Retrieval Inc. found that 80% of the country's 2,000 largest and richest public high schools now have at least one micro, while 60% of the 2,000 poorest schools have none. Says Market Data President Herbert Lobsenz: "If computers are the wave of the future, a lot of America is being washed...
...appointment is for 3 o'clock. Exactly two minutes after the hour a white Bentley wheels around the corner of an elegant block of town houses in London's Chelsea district. The two men inside wave encouragement at the reporter vainly ringing the bell at the first house in the row. While his chauffeur is unlocking the door, the passenger, who is also the owner of the house, murmurs apologies. "My dear fellow, I'm so sorry. Were you waiting long? I was having lunch with my agent, and I had a drink, which...