Word: candids
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...perspective. "There is," he remembers, "what no amount of paid advertising could have brought -- immediate notoriety." The two coexisting reactions -- of the egocentric artist and the canny producer -- reveal a true man of the theater, and in Private Domain Taylor has written one of the best and most candid theater books to appear in a long time...
...President said U.S. Soviet relations must be based "not on false hopes or wishful thinking... It's based on a candid assessment of Soviet actions and long term understanding of their intentions...
...Department of Health and Human Services also chose last week to release its long-delayed AIDS-education plan. The report, made public only after congressional prodding, was delayed for nearly two months by a sharp split in the Administration. Health authorities believe that the best AIDS prevention consists of candid information and safe-sex techniques like condom use, while conservative officials hold that chastity and marital sanctity are the only moral methods for preventing its spread...
...courtly Soviet diplomat is explaining to his earnest, rumpled American counterpart why the Kremlin must reject what both sides agree is a fair and useful arms-control plan. They are standing in the one place they can be candid, a small stretch of forest near the villas where, with grave and formal ceremony, they daily meet. Shared frustration has made them intimates, if still not quite friends, so the answer is blunt: "We don't trust you." Long years at the table have persuaded the Soviet that neither government will actually reduce armaments; neither side can afford the risky belief...
This will be in sharp contrast to Casey, who resented having to testify on Capitol Hill and was notorious for his mumblings and evasions. An unpublished Intelligence Committee draft on Iran found that Casey was "less than candid" in his testimony just before his hospitalization. Casey's penchant for hiding clandestine operations also led to clashes with Congress. The 1984 mining of Nicaraguan harbors, for instance, was a foreign relations disaster that spurred the legislators to cut off aid to the contras...