Word: blunt
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...only has the current Administration made little effort to redress the wage imbalance, in the eyes of many feminists it has set out to blunt the victories of the past ten years. Around the Women's Legal Defense Fund, President Reagan's popularity rating is about as high as the heels on a California rancher's boots. Among the grievances: Administration suspension of stronger affirmative-action regulations for businesses receiving Government contracts; withdrawal of wage-discrimination and sex-segregation guidelines for federal contractors; elimination of the $500 million set aside for child care in the federal budget...
...negotiations. Habib provided Jumblatt with a car and a safe-conduct pass for his trip to the presidential palace in Baabda. That kind of skillful arranging was only one of the rare blend of talents that Habib, 62, brought to his latest daunting assignment. Last year it was the blunt-spoken Habib who persuaded Israel and the P.L.O. to accept an unwritten ceasefire, which lasted until the Israeli invasion of Lebanon began. But his latest peacemaking chore is undoubtedly the most difficult task of his career...
Japanese management techniques will not reverse America's economic decline. Neither will obsessive number crunching or strategic planning. O.K., so what will? Strong corporate cultures, that's what. Such is the blunt message of Corporate Cultures (Addison-Wesley; 242 pages; $14.95), a lively dissection of American business winners written by Terrence E. Deal of the Harvard Graduate School of Education and Allan A. Kennedy, a Boston-based consultant. Executives, say Deal and Kennedy, must recognize that "a strong culture has almost always been the driving force behind continuing success in American business...
...soon to tell if the Strategic Arms Reduction Talks, which begin next week, will blunt the urgency of the movement. But for now, agitation and consciousness raising continue. Last Monday in New York City, nearly 1,700 protesters staged sit-ins-and were arrested-outside the U.N. offices of seven nations: the U.S., the U.S.S.R., China, Britain and France, all of which acknowledge having nuclear weapons, and Israel and South Africa, which are suspected of having them. The 16,000-member Physicians for Social Responsibility is planning a "national day of prayer" in October. The 2,000-member Lawyers Alliance...
...learned to listen carefully for imbedded assumptions in questions he is asked. Haig: "No one is pleased when circumstances involve the loss of lives, and innocent lives." The final question concerned Kirkpatrick, who seems to think that her presidential ties grant her freer speech. The question to Haig was blunt: "Why is she still in the Administration?" Haig ho-ho-hoed his way out of that one, with some words about those "personal peccadilloes that tantalize you gentlemen so much...