Word: approaches
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...addition to this piecemeal approach to maintaining employment in his district, Tsongas points to downtown development of older cities as a way of dealing with the problem. He never fails to inform listeners of the major achievement of his four years in Congress--authoring legislation, which was recently signed into law, to get the rundown city of Lowell declared as an urban national park--to commemorate it as the country's first planned industrial city. As a result, he maintains, the city will be able to tap federal funds for its revitalization efforts and new industry will be attracted...
...best way to approach a Victorian suspense thriller is with complete irreverence: take advantage of Theater at the Square's "dinner-theater-parking" package and the Hyatt Regency's Spinnaker Lounge for some drinks (or anywhere else you want to drink) and snucker on down to the Hasty Pudding Club, where the company is making its summer home. This effect will not only increase the drama of the drama, it will add a humorous dimension to the production. Which finally brings us out of this digression: the only touch Angel Street needs to become a better thriller...
...many other policy matters, Carter's approach to the Soviet Union has appeared inconsistent. In part, this is a result of the complexity of the superpower relationship. But it also probably reflects Carter's inability so far to reconcile the conflicting views of his two key foreign policy advisers: Cyrus Vance, who generally favors dealing with Moscow in a quiet and conciliatory manner, and National Security Affairs Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, who by and large advocates a tougher line. The Vance-Brzezinski differences, though firmly denied by the White House, affect much of the handling of foreign policy. Brzezinski...
China's more pragmatic approach to foreign policy has led to a slight downplaying of its avowed intention of "liberating" Taiwan by force if necessary -the main obstacle to normalization of U.S.-Chinese relations. Returning from a ten-day visit to China two weeks ago, New York Democratic Congressman Lester Wolff reported that China's top foreign policymaker, Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-p'ing, had told him that Peking was willing to negotiate its differences on Taiwan with the Nationalist Chinese government. Said Wolff: "There was none of the rhetoric we had heard before about...
Perhaps. At Bonn there were a refreshing spontaneity and a more realistic approach to problems than in the earlier meetings. Said Jimmy Carter: "We don't pull any punches in our private meetings. We are very forceful, very argumentative at times...