Word: willingness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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During a brief visit to the American aircraft carrier, the USS Forrestal, Bush called Gorbachev "a dynamic new Soviet leader willing... to think anew."
It isn't just that the shift of winds in Eastern Europe is so incredibly rapid, but so disconcertingly nebulous. The changes in Poland and Hungary are not like an election campaign, which has a definite conclusion, or an earthquake, whose scale can be precisely measured. Where we will end...
That de Klerk is attacking right-wing intolerance is heartening. But de Klerk, like Gorbachev in Europe, has also unleashed strong political forces that threaten to carry him away. Unlike the Soviet premier, however, de Klerk is offering only superficial changes, not legitimate reforms. Unless he is willing to offer...
Tsongas said he was willing to discuss ideas with both Democratic and Republican candidates for governor and planned to continue in his unpaid job as chair of the Board of Regents of Higher Education.
"He was so far ahead in the polls and was willing to take some of the tough stands a leader in politics must make, cutting services and raising taxes," Kennedy said of Tsongas. "He had a unique ability to reach out to people, both in the business community and the...