Word: apparatchiks
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...have bought in on the ground floor felt particularly wise, confident of their stock-picking skills. Considering the T1 offering (priced at $3.30), the best piece of advice that came my way was from a revered political commentator. Cutting through the financial claptrap with the elegance of a boy apparatchik, he suggested that because so many voters would become Telstra owners, the stock's price would always be politically sensitive. Hence, governments would provide the dominant player with a favorable regulatory climate. Even though we lived in Sydney's suburbs, our family could now enjoy the kind of electoral pork...
...Clinton told him in 1993 that former Vice President Walter Mondale would come as the new ambassador. When Mondale changed his mind, Clinton sent Thomas Pickering, then the country’s most senior career minister, in his place. Yeltsin was furious, feeling he had been saddled with an apparatchik. He reportedly never trusted Clinton again...
...novice at foreign policy, he speaks with much less knowledge and authority than his predecessor and seems to be mainly a pleasant and able messenger for his boss. While Gromyko tended to deliver harsh lectures to Western diplomats, Shevardnadze offers competent, but far from exhaustive, position summaries. A Communist apparatchik in his home republic of Georgia, Shevardnadze rarely traveled abroad until he was tapped by the party leadership for his present post last July 2. But he has gained visible confidence in recent visits to Helsinki, Paris and twice to the U.S. Says one senior Western diplomat: "The guiding hand...
...Administration's official line was one of "tactical pessimism." The idea was to explain away in advance any failure to reach substantive accords as the fault of a new Soviet leader who, for all his pretense to the role of Great Communicator, is in fact just another dogmatic Kremlin apparatchik. For their part, the Soviets engaged in similar pre-emptive propaganda about how the Reagan Administration had all but doomed the summit's chances...
...first of his scenarios to come true. In the 1970s, he and his mentors at Shell warned of the rise of OPEC and the oil crisis, and as the cold war raged in the 1980s, he foresaw the downfall of the Soviet Union and the rise of an obscure apparatchik named Mikhail Gorbachev...