Word: pasting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...much of the past year, it was considered bold to ask, What if Gorbachev really is willing to disarm significantly? What if he is prepared to demilitarize Soviet society and Soviet foreign policy? What if he adopts levels and deployments of troops, types and numbers of weapons that give real meaning to his slogans of "mutual security" and "nonoffensive defense...
...policy. The misguided mission also seemed intended to send a distinctly ominous signal to the Soviet Union, quite out of keeping with the one Bush had sought to convey a few days earlier in Malta. Gorbachev and perestroika may fail. The U.S.S.R. may revert to its misbehavior of the past. But the Kremlin should beware: the U.S. is hedging its bets with good old-fashioned triangular diplomacy; however often its existence has been denied, the infamous China card is available for whatever poker games the future may have in store...
...intellectual and biographical origins of Gorbachev's radicalism will probably always be a mystery. In a way, they become more mysterious as time goes on, if only because he becomes more radical. The sweeping changes he has instigated this past year in the U.S.S.R., particularly free expression and democratization, and his transfusion of counterrevolution into Eastern Europe would shock not only the late Andrei Gromyko, who nominated Gorbachev for the general secretaryship in 1985, but the Gorbachev of five years ago as well...
...past decade brought go-go growth but left huge debts, an S&L disaster and an array of postponed problems. The '90s will be a time to fix up, clean...
Which were the decade's outstanding movies, books or TV shows? What breakthroughs in technology, design or food transformed people's living habits? And who were the celebrities who dominated and defined the era? Thirteen pages of selections from all that was notable in the past ten years, from the '84 Olympics to The Bonfire of the Vanities, from pasta to the fax machine. Nor was every prominent event or personality praiseworthy, by any % means. The Hitler diaries, Ollie North and Pete Rose were part...