Word: rethink
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hope you will consider how much your words mean and rethink your position. Respectfully yours...
...performance for what it was: in the year of Communism's historic identity crisis -- a time of glasnost in the Soviet Union, brutal repression in China and political unease in the rest of Eastern Europe -- Poland had launched a democratic experiment unique in the Communist world. "It makes us rethink the proposition that Stalinism is eternal," said a U.S. official. "Now we don't know for sure that Stalinism is above being reformed...
Ironically, Poland's resounding display of democracy seemed likely to make other Soviet-bloc regimes -- already bedeviled by reformist rumblings -- rethink the wisdom of opening up the electoral process. Said a senior Western diplomat in Warsaw: "It may have been the worst possible result for glasnost in Eastern Europe. Every Communist Party in the region must now be aware that democratization is the beginning...
...favorable trends in Soviet domestic and foreign policy are irreversible -- no matter who the General Secretary is -- and not far enough in taking advantage of the immediate opportunities that Gorbachev himself represents. For example, his willingness to trim Soviet military muscle might give the U.S. a welcome chance to rethink some of its own more expensive superweapons...
...unearthed: a medieval city of giant towers sitting atop an important Roman city dating from the 1st century; Greek objects imported as early as the 8th century B.C.; even obsidian tools and pottery fragments probably imported from Sardinia around 3000 B.C. Nicosia says the findings have forced experts to rethink old Florence: "We expected to discover the Roman and the medieval cities, but not to this extent. We also didn't know the city was so old, going as far back as the Bronze...