Word: blunt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Blunt Instrument...
...Ford visit would be "normalization" of relations and resolution of the Taiwan issue. The minimum goal, they graciously add, "is for your President to come to China and have some good meals." Evidently, the Chinese policy will be one of moderation: urging the U.S. and Japan to blunt the increasing danger of Soviet penetration into Southeast Asia...
TIME correspondents have written that "Sadat has proved quite capable of bold leadership and blunt talk among Arab leaders." True. But in the last resort, leadership consists of leaders talking bluntly and boldly-to themselves and to each other. This is the Israeli hope from Anwar Sadat...
...Prime Minister was referring, of course, to Britain's continuing desperate economic woes. The usually circumspect Bank for International Settlements, a Basel-based central bank for central banks, issued a blunt report that faulted British authorities for their "not very successful" attempt to cope "with a situation deteriorating on several fronts at once." The infectious gloom of the Basel moneymen spread to the London stockmarket, killing any hopes for an upsurge in the wake of the pro-Market landslide. The day after the B.I.S. report was issued, there was a rush of Arab petrodollars out of London...
...Sharon, Israel's hero of the October war, to be his personal adviser. The move guaranteed increased support for Rabin from right-wing Israelis who adore the superhawk Sharon and who have long worried that the Premier is a waffling dove. The general's charisma will also blunt the appeal of Rabin critics like former Defense Minister Moshe Dayan. Since Sharon becomes a civil servant who by law cannot openly criticize the government, Rabin has also neatly stilled the voice of a maverick politician who once called him both "naive" and "childish" for indicating willingness to trade...