Word: adroitness
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...jumbo summit would be possible. The first stage, the convocation of the foreign ministers, may last only a few days. Essentially, it will give each minister a chance to make a speech on general principles and to discuss the proposed agenda for Stage 2. As a result of some adroit maneuvering by the Russians, Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko will lead off the ministerial round of speeches. U.S. Secretary of State William Rogers will be one of the last speakers...
...they are an implicit answer to the Nixon Administration's assertion that its actions in the Watergate case have been motivated by "national security." It is an adroit defense, because the phrase is so vague as to defy easy definition and it appeals, after all, to valid national concerns...
...feelings. Martin, now 60, first learned his political skills while working as a Washington columnist for a number of newspapers in his native South, and then as an official in Franklin Roosevelt's National Recovery Administration. Appointed to the Paris embassy after World War II, he became so adroit in finding and exploiting sources of power that he acquired a nickname that still follows him: "Cardinal Richelieu...
Well-organized, methodical and a habitual notetaker at every policy discussion, Gray has been essentially a follower and a kind of supersecretary rather than a leader. He has also been an adroit backstage operator. When the Kleindienst nomination ran into controversy over allegations that International Telephone & Telegraph Corp. had been given favorable treatment by the Justice Department in the out-of-court settlement of several antitrust cases, Gray worked with the FBI in exploring the matter. Ironically, he had the duty of advising Kleindienst on how to handle questions from the Senate Judiciary Committee?a task that Gray himself...
...solution to the troubles of Argentina and then ride off into the sunset like a gaucho De Gaulle with his charisma and place in history as a statesman intact, the scene was not quite right. Perón had, in fact, been forced to return to Argentina by the adroit maneuvering of Argentina's current President and military strongman, Alejandro Lanusse...