Word: adroitly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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BOTH IN DOMESTIC and in international affairs, then, this administration provides a vexing problem for its opportunism of method with seeming consistency of aim. Reagan has thus far stuck to his guns and has dispelled many doubts with his adroit sense of humor. He remains, in most respects the same politician who appealed to the Republican convention to bow its collective head in prayer, and his policies will require an extraordinary and unlikely collective act of faith. The Democrats and the media, however, have been unable to expose the crudeness of Reagan's means or the injustice of his ends...
...prime television time, where he could make his pitch uninterrupted by hectoring reporters. For Allen to plead his case before the big audiences he wanted, he had to choose among the three networks' powerful courts of inquisition and had in return to face their male and female Torquemadas. Adroit in the arts of publicity, Allen chose NBC's Meet the Press-because the questioners are at the other end of the studio and the questioning is orderly and by turns. He brought them a scoop: he was taking an administrative leave from his job because...
...have one piece of advice to give you, Professor. Read the columnists, and if they call a member of your staff thoughtful, dedicated, or any other friendly adjective, fire him immediately. He is your leaker." That was in the days before Kissinger, as Secretary of State, became the most adroit leaker of them...
Reagan is the most successful President yet in the adroit use of "photo opportunities." (Some White House photographers, however, are getting complaints from their editors, the New York Times reports, about too many unvaryingly smiling pictures of Reagan even when he is announcing budget cuts.) At a photo opportunity, the setting is always favorable to him: the President striding toward his limo, or about to talk to an important guest, generously pausing to answer a reporter's question. A wave, a smile, a one-liner: just what the networks need. The great thing about such scenes is that though...
...return for the Conoco stock that Dome had acquired. At the same time, however, a more ominous Canadian challenger appeared. In late May, Seagram privately approached Conoco with an offer to buy 35% of the oil firm's shares. Edgar Bronfman, Seagram's adroit chairman, is currently on the hunt for new acquisitions with nearly $3 billion, gained largely from the sale of Texas oil and gas properties...