Word: approached
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...shareholder companies, leasehold properties, cooperative enterprises and individual employment. Broadly speaking, self- employed people will include those who work in their own shops or on their own plots of land. In developed Western countries, there are various concepts of a market economy. For example, there is a more liberal approach in the U.S., while in some European countries, such as France and Scandinavia, there is more government regulation; a significant portion of the economy is publicly owned. But even there, everything operates within the framework of a market...
...President of my country, I obviously protect the interests of the U.S.S.R. Yet I also have concern and respect for the legitimate interests of ) the U.S. I try to understand what worries the Americans. If both sides take this approach, we will be able to accomplish a great deal and make steady and continuous progress in our relations...
...that just to roll downhill again. Those five years have not been lost. We have gained experience; we have new knowledge, which we lacked at the first stage of perestroika. We have become wiser, we have learned to take a more reasoned and competent approach to the fundamental tasks of perestroika. So some preparatory phase -- what I would call a phase of quantitative accumulation -- was inevitable and necessary. What's more, it has persuaded us that, in principle, we are on the right track...
When the U.S.S.R. was born, there was a heated debate. Lenin was of the view that the Union should be a federation of equal republics, while Stalin in effect favored a unitary state. Lenin's approach was formally adopted in 1922, but in real life things turned out quite differently. It's only now that we are beginning to create a new Union in the original sense of that concept. A truly democratic multinational state and the progress of perestroika are mutually interdependent; each depends very much on the other...
What can they do to stop the U.S. from ramming its own answer to the German question down their throats? "Nothing," admits a close Gorbachev adviser. "But the outcome will influence our approach on many other matters. If the old German Democratic Republic joins NATO, the Soviet military will be harder for all of us, including Gorbachev, to deal with on a variety of other issues." That presumably refers to the many issues of nuclear and conventional arms control that will not be resolved at the summit this week...