Word: instinctive
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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William Peacock had just finished a breakfast of Chinese beef and noodles when he felt the plane "shudder, like we were going into a mild stall." His first instinct was to return to his seat just ten feet away, but even that proved a chore. "The aircraft had started to turn a very hard left, and there was this incredible horizontal pressure pushing my entire body to the right." China Airlines Flight 006 from Taipei to Los Angeles, with 243 passengers and 25 crew members aboard, was going down. "Dishes crashed against the walls and floor," Peacock recounted. "The baggage...
...exception was Gromyko. During Khrushchev's time he made a decision, which proved to be inspired, to cultivate Brezhnev. While others saw Brezhnev as a colorless, unimaginative party careerist without distinction, luck and instinct made Gromyko see something more. Gromyko took Brezhnev's responsibilities as nominal head of state seriously...
...regime's insistence on maintaining a facade of normality reveals the leadership's deep fear of political discontinuity. The same conservative instinct is an important reason why there is no codified process for changes in command and no real tradition of how such changes should be made. The Kremlin's obsession with continuity is confirmed by former Diplomat Arkady Shevchenko, the highest-ranking Soviet official to defect since World War II (see SPECIAL SECTION). Says he: "They have never decided on a new leader before the old one is dead"--or, in the case of Nikita Khrushchev, deposed by collective...
...most annoying thing about Northeastern is that they can drive a goalie wild," said Kimmel. "They don't just shoot on every wild instinct--they wait, they control, and they...
...ways. Yet Reagan's simple, straight-ahead optimism can be deceiving. In the past, he has shown a shrewd sense of political timing, a knack for changing course at just the right moment. The hard choices of Ronald Reagan's second term will test his instinct for compromise, again and again...