Word: blunt
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DIVORCED. EVELYN DAVIS, 64, shareholder-gadfly; from economist Walter Froh Jr.; in Washington. "No more marriages for me," vowed Evelyn, whose craftily blunt criticisms of corporate boards during annual meetings inspired Citicorp to limit shareholders' questions to three minutes...
Aides preparing Clinton for his CBS interview last week began with a blunt sample question, phrased by political adviser Paul Begala: "Your health-care reform is in trouble, the polls look bad, ((Senate Republican leader Bob)) Dole says your plan is dead." (Actually, Dole carefully qualified his statement, saying "in its present form.") The President's response, says Begala, "was all energy, energy, energy. To Clinton the notion that he's getting into trouble is invigorating." The President and Hillary Rodham Clinton plan an intensified grass-roots campaign to build public support. Bill Clinton gave an example Wednesday by phoning...
...That blunt, five-word concession statement rang down the curtain last week on one of the hardest-fought and longest-running takeover sagas in American corporate history. It came after Viacom Inc., best known for its ownership of MTV, won an overwhelming victory in the epic five-month battle for control of Paramount Communications, garnering more than 90% of Paramount shares soon after the polls closed in the proxy contest. In doing so, Viacom takes home some of the crown jewels of entertainment, including the Paramount film and television studios and a library of 890 movies ranging from Wayne...
...joint press appearance, with Hosokawa at his side, Clinton let loose. Japan's markets "still remain less open to imports than any other" major nation's, he said. Japan still "screens out many of our products, even our most competitive products." Clinton's summation was startlingly blunt: "It is better to have reached no agreement than to have reached an empty agreement...
Instead, what we got was the following blunt statement from Dean for Undergraduate Education Lawrence Buell, who is leading the search: "The search process, we hope, will complete itself this winter...