Word: true
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...greeted by much of the U.S. foreign policy establishment with cynicism. The Defense Secretary, it was said, had not really had a change of heart; the cuts had more to do with the requirements of the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings deficit-reduction law than with the opportunities posed by Gorbachev. True, but beside the point. What mattered to the Soviets was that the U.S. body politic as a whole now accepted the proposition that Kremlin policy had changed in ways that justified American reciprocation...
...true that on Oct. 9 you personally intervened to prevent another Tiananmen Square happening in Leipzig by countermanding a written order by Honecker to use military units in and around the city -- which had received live ammunition -- to put down the demonstrations by force, on the grounds that they were counterrevolutionary...
...told Wattleton. You're a bit possessive. You can keep a secret. Wattleton's face was a mask. You dwell a great deal on the past, Arredondo continued. You are easily wounded, but you hide it well. When Arredondo finished, Wattleton was silent. Well, how much of it was true? Wattleton paused, and then said, very softly, "All of it." Then she smiled. "Does it say I'm late?" Wattleton asked. "I'm always late...
...corporate raiders who amassed fabulous fortunes in the 1980s, that sad song has begun to seem painfully true. Armed chiefly with bravado and borrowed cash, such buccaneers as T. Boone Pickens, Paul Bilzerian and Canada's Robert Campeau once made boardrooms tremble and the stock market dance. No longer. More jeered than feared, many raiders are mired in debt, saddled with bankrupt companies or deprived of their clout. Others who profited from the buyout binge face public obloquy or even years in jail...
...make sense that pollen was in the chemical. I thought that if this were true, the Soviets had headed down a scientific blind alley," he said...