Word: compliments
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...officials refused to comment on whether the long-term mission would be extended. For his part, Clinton says that he had no political motivations in waiting until after the election to make the announcement, arguing that the decision had been openly debated for weeks. The President also threw a compliment Bob Dole's way, calling the GOP candidate's decision to back the U.S. presence in Bosnia a "statesmanlike" move. Republican leaders, who had been skeptical all along that the President would bring the troops home as promised, have accused him of breaking his word even as evidence mounts that...
...combined efforts of directors Michael Friedman and Hilary Snow have produced a theater experience that is both enjoyable and thought provoking. Placing The Zoo Story and The Actor's Nightmare back to back, Friedman and Snow have allowed the plays to compliment each other. It is a night of comedy and tragedy, but also a night of good theater...
...watching. Phone calls led to meetings that led to a jointly written 1993 Perot-Choate book excoriating the North American Free Trade Agreement; even some other treaty opponents found it overstated. Perot nonetheless has paid his coauthor--well, not the ultimate, or even the penultimate, but maybe the antepenultimate compliment. After other, bigger names, such as former Senator David Boren of Oklahoma and Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur of Ohio, refused to sign on as Perot's vice-presidential running mate, the billionaire turned to Choate, who accepted. Said Choate, the son of a sharecropper from tiny Maypearl, Texas: "It's sort...
...Israeli Prime Minister assassinated only hours earlier. Dole had barely known Rabin but viewed him as a soul mate nonetheless--a "no-nonsense kind of guy," he told me as we flew toward Washington--someone "who knew how to get things done." Those words, expressing Dole's highest compliment, were the very ones he was already using to distinguish himself from his Republican rivals, but more important, from Clinton. "I'm a doer, not a talker," Dole would say. "The President is a talker who doesn...
...people talked of Reagan's magic and meant it as a compliment. Today people talk of Clinton's trickery, and do not mean to be flattering. Reagan's rhetorical skills made him the "Great Communicator" (good); Clinton's make him "Slick Willie" (bad). These are journalists' characterizations, but the perception is widely shared, fairly or unfairly, by the public...