Word: bolds
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What's different is the American response. The media screams "terrorism" in bold letters and bright colors everywhere. Time magazine runs a cover story titled "Tourism is a Bust"...well, it certainly was. But the main contributing factor to this economic and vacation disaster is not necessarily specific terrorist acts, but rather what seems to be "fear...
...June. For the first time in the history of nuclear diplomacy, the U.S. has been responding to Soviet proposals rather than taking the initiative. Moreover, the American response has frequently been delayed, tentative and ambiguous. In chess terms, it is as though, after years of playing white, making bold opening moves, the U.S. has elected to play black, letting the U.S.S.R. advance its pieces toward the center of the board while the U.S. counters with pawns...
...other side, waiting until just the right moment to pounce on the best deal he can get. But there is another, less encouraging reason for the American strategy of playing black: the Administration is still so sharply divided over arms control that it quite simply is incapable of making bold or even straightforward moves. Once again last week's developments demonstrated the point. The Reagan response to Gorbachev was -- and continues to be -- the object of ferocious intramural battling and bickering between the State Department and the Pentagon...
Harriman was never a brilliant strategic thinker, but he could be shrewd. Often plodding yet at times strikingly bold, detached yet intense, he would seem half asleep at meetings, until someone uttered a fatuous remark. Then he would snap the offender's head off. His nickname in the Kennedy Administration was "the Crocodile...
Despite the carping, Poindexter has many admirers in Government who point to his substantive successes. They cite his role in devising the Navy's bold interception of an Egyptian airliner carrying the hijackers of the Achille Lauro, his ability to overcome Pentagon qualms about launching air strikes against Libya and his role in getting Congress to renew military aid to contra forces in Nicaragua...