Word: broads
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Soviet specialist: "My guess is that he will do pretty well. He won't see problems in isolation. He may connect them more than a lot of people's taste would warrant." Rejecting the view that Haig is an unimaginative technocrat, Sonnenfeldt says "he has a broad and creative vision and a special talent for recognizing the connection between issues." Other observers, such as former White House staffers and senior State Department officials, note that even though Haig is not a grand strategist in the Kissinger manner, he compensates for that lack with his organizational skills, his realism...
Morale certainly has been helped by Haig's quick start in organizing the department. For the top jobs he has picked mostly moderate conservatives, men with long operating experience but little reputation for broad conceptual thinking. Some of the key names: Walter Stoessel, a senior ambassador in the Foreign Ser vice...
...year ago, a blue and white flag embossed with the Star of David was hoisted above a sandstone villa in a broad-avenued residential district in Cairo. Simultaneously, the red, white and black Egyptian flag was raised over a newly opened embassy in Tel Aviv. After three decades of war, Israel and Egypt had at last embarked on a peaceful reconciliation and, as a first step, exchanged ambassadors. Since then, the attempt by the two erstwhile foes to become good neighbors has unfolded like an uncertain and at times highly awkward tango...
...that would help get Detroit back on its feet, with aid and direction from Washington. It is tinkering with a proposal worked up late in the Carter Administration for the development of a three-way "compact" among industry, labor and Government to restore the health of the carmakers. In broad terms, the Reagan Administration aims to use a promise of a curb on Japanese imports as a carrot to get all of Detroit to accept the kind of changes in traditional ways of doing business that Chrysler and its union agreed to in return for loan guarantees. Explained William Brock...
...virtually every medium of show business, from Bowery saloons to vaudeville to television, where they enjoyed a late resurgence as performers on the Ed Sullivan Show in the 1950s; in Englewood, N.J. Smith and Charlie Dale joined forces in 1898, building their enduring appeal on a series of broad, boisterous sketches like "Hungarian Rhapsody" and the classic "Dr. Kronkheit" ("Doctor, how much is it a visit?" "Ten dollars the first visit, five dollars thereafter." "Here I am again!"). The pair, who continued to work together until Dale's death in 1971, partly inspired the Neil Simon play and film...