Word: followed
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...placed all its hopes for a new world order on Gorbachev. French and German authorities last week even urged that aid be accelerated, arguing that at this critical time for the survival of perestroika Gorbachev needs all the help he can get. But what if the next figure to follow Shevardnadze to a podium and announce that a triumphant right has left him no choice but to resign were Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev...
...very significant moment for me was in 1987, when in a referendum Poles rejected proposals for painful but necessary economic reforms. I realized then that without popular support we would be unable to follow the communist route any further...
Bush also had his own domestic economic agenda. Other major grain producers, from Canada to Australia, have already eased the Soviets' access to credit; failure to follow suit, U.S. farmers argued, could shut them out of the huge Soviet market. But farm- belt lawmakers complained that the credit guarantees did not go far enough: Senate minority leader Robert Dole of Kansas had hoped for at least $3 billion. Trade experts note that because of Moscow's shortage of hard currency reserves, the U.S.S.R. needed the credits simply to match its normal level of U.S. imports...
...Another factor is the slippery nature of racial politics, so easy to unleash but so difficult to control. For example, the Education Department's ruling on minority scholarships, which caused consternation in both the White House and the college community, apparently sprouted from a subordinate's overzealous attempt to follow the instincts of Candidate Bush. That misjudgment was understandable, given the atmosphere encouraged by Bennett and other conservatives in the President's entourage...
...wait for fate to guide you to right place at the right time, just follow me to lunch. I have a "feeling" (all right, this time I have inside information) that there are going to be Deli Days this afternoon...