Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Another American Nobel laureate presents his patented array of characters -- big thinkers and big shots -- with typical energy and verve. The author here makes limitations of length a positive virtue; the pressure of high-toned ideas passing through the minds of flawed, often comic figures gives the impression of short stories that are bursting at the seams...
...outside goods. Some now see difficulties in the new possibility of German reunification and an economic opening to the East. Leaders of the European Community are convinced, however, that the answer to that possibility is not to delay the Western merger but to speed it up. "Time is short," European Commission President Jacques Delors declared in an address at the College of Europe in Bruges. "History is accelerating, and we must accelerate as well...
Whatever happens to Gorbachev and his risky experiment, he already qualifies as a political genius, if only because he radiates a sense of purpose, motion, decisiveness and hope -- in short, "the vision thing." While Western experts bicker over whether he knows what he is doing and where he is going, Gorbachev gives the impression that he has as many answers as they have questions. Part of his acumen is his sure feel for what is truly important to his task and, conversely, a breathtaking audacity in discarding what he believes is less than vital. This year, without a great deal...