Word: blusteringly
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...politicians find a politic way of giving themselves a raise? Under a law passed in 1985, if Congress simply does nothing, the new pay scale will automatically take effect on Feb. 5, a month after it was presented to the legislature. But the Senate, for one, has opted for bluster and the appearance of self-sacrifice. This week Majority Leader Robert Byrd promises to put the raises to a vote. Byrd also hopes to impose stricter limits on honorariums that can boost Senators' incomes by more than $30,000 a year...
...France through the technocraft of Circle-Vision 360. The 100 small panels that make up the huge screen in the Energy Pavilion at Disney World's Epcot Center rotate in sync, creating gorgeous sculptured images. Filmed characters interact with spooky holograms and jolly robots. Thus it is with justifiable bluster that Frank Wells, the dapper, track-star-thin boss of Disney's theme lands, describes the company's latest park attraction as "far more than a motion picture. It is a total three-dimensional experience." Rusty Lemorande, the film's producer, calls it "not so much a movie...
There were signs that the prospect of a U.S. military attack, combined with Gaddafi's vengeful bluster, was galvanizing European allies into talking about taking further steps. At a press conference in Tripoli, Gaddafi vowed to answer any U.S. strike by fomenting terrorist attacks in all the cities of southern Europe. An alarmed Italian Prime Minister Craxi phoned his Spanish counterpart, Felipe Gonzalez, to suggest that a meeting of foreign ministers of the twelve European Community nations be held right away. The meeting was scheduled first for Wednesday, then for Monday. Its apparent purpose: to draft some European-wide program...
...this year and next but for the remainder of the Reagan presidency. Georgi Arbatov, a key adviser on American affairs, muttered darkly on a Soviet television program last week, "Soviet relations with the U.S. did not begin with Reagan, and they will not end with Reagan." That may be bluster, as Gorbachev's pre-summit comments last year proved to be, but there is a chance that this time the Soviets just might mean...
...stop Gaddafi from fomenting terrorism and to stop Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega Saavedra from spreading Marxist revolution. Indeed, Reagan would not mind going one step further and getting both men right off the world stage. But eliminating such nemeses is not so easy. For all his make-my-day bluster, Reagan is no less bound than were his immediate predecessors by rules of military engagement that, while rooted in the best democratic traditions, have been carried to unreal extremes: American boys should not be seen dying on the nightly news. Wars should be over in three days or less...