Word: bows
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...negotiating opportunities, or the civilian leadership at Weinberger's Pentagon, which believes that almost any agreement with the Soviets would freeze the U.S. into a position of inferiority. By taking the initiative with Reagan, says a State Department official, Shultz fired "a shot across Weinberger's bow. If he can get the guidelines fixed now, Weinberger won't be able to stymie him so much...
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After that initial bow to foreign affairs, Rajiv concentrated on restoring order and confidence to Indian life. He lost no time in establishing a commission of inquiry, headed by a Supreme Court justice, to investigate the slaying of his mother. He visited the ravaged, riot-torn areas of his capital in a tour that the pro-Gandhi National Herald declared "had an efficacious and reassuring impact on the morale of the people." Then, in answer to chilling claims that the police had simply shrugged their shoulders or looked away while the bloodbath continued, the new Prime Minister fired the Lieutenant...
...precedents, and projected the Hinckley case outside itself and into a more general and philosophical consideration of the issues. All the while, he subtly weaves his argument and day by day New Yorker-style descriptions ("Jo Ann Moore Hinckley ... wore a salmon-pink outfit, with Peter Pan collar and bow, and spoke in a soft Texas accent") around the goings-on of an insanity trial being held at the same moment in the same city. The issues there are the same, but the costs less outrageous, the participants less famous and, instead of the prestigious firm of Williams and Connolly...
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