Word: setting
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Even soup kitchens are as much a safety net as a final refuge for the down- and-out. Ptasinska, for example, has just borrowed nearly $1,000 from a privately financed special fund to set up a small business ironing sheets for hospitals and other institutions. She is counting on earning $300 in a good month, enough to make repayments and help support her family...
...Grain, Yeltsin reports that Gorbachev phoned later to offer him the deputy chairmanship of the State Construction Committee, which he accepted. Gorbachev then told him he would permanently be barred from politics. Writes Yeltsin: "It did not occur to him that he had created and put in motion a set of democratic processes under which his word as General Secretary ceased to be the word of a dictator...
After winning the leadership of the Russian Federation last week, Yeltsin said he intended to set aside personal animosities and build relations with Gorbachev, "not on confrontation but on a businesslike basis." Already in Canada, Gorbachev responded that he thought he could work with Yeltsin if he was willing to cooperate. But if "he is indeed playing a political game, then we may be in for a difficult time." The next day at a press conference, Yeltsin elaborated on the details of his program of sovereignty and economic reform, thus ensuring further clashes with Gorbachev. He increased the tension another...
Like a married couple facing tough times, Bush and Gorbachev seem determined to make the relationship work despite their difficulties. After wrestling for two days with intractable problems, the two Presidents simply set their differences aside and exchanged signatures on a variety of halfway measures. When their negotiators got hung up once again on the details of arms reduction, Bush and Gorbachev instead signed a joint statement to slash the numbers of strategic nuclear warheads, and they inked formal pacts to eliminate most of their arsenals of chemical arms and to verify limits on nuclear testing. Those, however, were...
When the klieg lights of the summit have faded and the lambent glow of history takes over, Bush's response to the controversy set off by the Wellesley seniors may be what is remembered. While the First Lady's official cause is literacy, her unofficial mission is to convince a new generation of women that there is honor and a deep, sustaining pleasure in motherhood, that a life-style is no substitute for a life. "At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, ((not)) winning one more verdict, or not closing...