Word: approaches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...never implemented this plan, for fear of hostile replies and/or crosschecks into nearby marble pillars. So on I went to Plan B: the direct approach...
According to Nancy Couch--the former Harvard director of the joint fund--each school will now approach both men and women graduates for donations. The policy change was announced in a letter to 22,000 alumni sent out this summer...
...past, said Adrian Hyde-Price of London's Royal Institute of International Affairs, "the Soviets would have invaded by now." This time, most Western analysts are convinced, Moscow will allow Poland to try a pluralistic approach -- as long as the new, Solidarity-led government honors its pledge not to leave the Warsaw Pact. "As long as Gorbachev is in power, there will be no direct interference," predicted Hartmut Jaeckel, a Polish specialist at the Free University of Berlin...
...problem with that approach, some health-care experts say, is that employees have even less control over medical costs than do corporations. "What can an ordinary phoneworker do about the prices that hospitals and physicians charge?" asks Dale Hiestand, professor of corporate relations at the Columbia University School of Business. A better solution, union leaders argue, is to work harder to keep costs down. They point to a program at BellSouth in which managers and employees have joined forces to cut costs, enabling the Atlanta-based company to keep its generous health-care coverage intact...
...Estonian leadership has come under virulent attack from militant Russians for promoting legislation that gives priority to the language and culture of ethnic Estonians. Gorbachev may have taken a conciliatory approach with the nation's striking miners, but the authorities in Tallinn signaled last week that they were growing impatient with Russian agitators who have been using labor protests to press their demands. The authorities invoked a resolution recently passed by the Supreme Soviet in Moscow to ban the strike and issued a call for "common sense." As Popular Front leader Veidemann notes, "Our greatest danger lies in creating...