Word: blunt
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most people, leaving high public office quickly leads to a loss of prominence. Not so for Jeane Kirkpatrick. Ten weeks after returning to private life from her four-year stint as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, the blunt-spoken Kirkpatrick has become a star on the lecture circuit, a hero within her newly adopted Republican Party and probably the most talked-about, albeit undeclared, electoral newcomer on the political scene. Though Kirkpatrick finds the glare of personal celebrity "very unexpected," she is passing up few opportunities to make the most of it. "I get a lift from speaking...
...group, including Nigeria and Ecuador, have been offering under-the-table discounts and exceeding their OPEC-decreed production quotas. As a result, Saudi Arabia's King Fahd directed Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani, his Oil Minister, to deliver an ultimatum to the rest of OPEC. The King's blunt message: Saudi Arabia, which has been holding oil exports under its quota to help prop up prices, would not keep on curbing sales if other OPEC members continued to cheat...
...with Moliere's sham holy man the gift of ever renewed plausibility. Time and again, just as the audience is ready to withdraw its sympathy in disgust, Le Roux exposes the hypocrisies of opponents so tellingly that he becomes persuasive anew. When outraged employees confront him, his retort is blunt and seemingly unanswerable: If an unfettered press is crucial to a free society, then why have Fleet Street journalists squandered their energies on look-alike rags compounded of crime, cleavage, gossip about royalty and page upon page of sports...
...surprised few oil-industry watchers that Hartley, a man with a reputation for being as blunt and hard driving as a drilling rig, resisted with deep anger and tenacity T. Boone Pickens' attempt to take over his company. Last April, when the two men met in a Washington corridor while waiting to testify about takeovers before the House Ways and Means Committee, Hartley refused to shake his adversary's hand. This was no sporting contest; this...
...wayward hairdresser from Soho. Twittering about to arrange a meeting between his niece and her enamorata. Pandarus is the quintessmal old fuss budget. While Ulysses gets the most elegant lines in the piece Pandarus gets enough good comic material to read for the role of a Green Johnny Carson. Blunt to the point of abrasiveness. Pandarus urges the lovers to abandon useless talk and move into more substantial endeavors once they have made each other's acquaintance...