Word: blunt
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...April 9, 1987, all five Senators met with bank examiners summoned from San Francisco to DeConcini's office. DeConcini is quoted in notes from the meeting telling the examiners that "actions of yours could injure a constituent." Glenn said, "To be blunt, you should charge them or get off their backs." Riegle asked, "Where are the losses?" The federal banking agents pointed out that Lincoln was "flying blind on all of their different loans and investments," that there was no underwriting on most loans, that the bank's practices "violated the law, regulations and common sense" and that...
...That blunt diagnosis is typical of Sachs, 34, an economics wunderkind who was a tenured professor at 29 and has become a champion of debt relief for developing countries. He first gained renown for his advice to Bolivia, which slashed its inflation rate from more than 20,000% in 1985 to 15% today. When Sachs visited Argentina last June, talk-show hosts rushed to schedule interviews. In a single hectic week last month, Sachs was in Peru and Brazil and then jetted to Warsaw, where he advises the new government...
...there any sense in a national policy that has Government officials gloating over the death of an 18-month-old girl while denying any intention to harm one of the kings of international terrorism? That has the U.S. impoverishing a whole country (Panama) through the blunt instrument of economic sanctions because we deny ourselves the use of a more surgical tool? One defense of the assassination ban is cynical. It is part of an unspoken agreement that brings a bit of order to the international chaos by ruling out one especially messy technique of war. Explicitly limiting...
...sugarcoating this subject has received. Except for a few taunting schoolmates, Corky is drenched in love and support. Life Goes On may have the highest hug-a-minute ratio of any show in TV history. His parents (Bill Smitrovich and Patti LuPone) are unfailingly wise and patient. Only his blunt younger sister (Kellie Martin) worries occasionally about being embarrassed by her brother in school...
...Beneath the flags and banners, East Germans are increasingly questioning who and what they are -- and not liking the answers. Those who have made their way to the West since the beginning of the year have done so not out of material desperation or fear of persecution but in blunt renunciation of the East German system. "It is a suffocating place, and we didn't see any chance of the present regime's changing," said Karl Weinbauer as he waited, dirty and cold, in Prague...