Word: concessioner
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English Canadians feel they have taken the role of the masochist in a bad marriage, making concessions in the vain hope of peace. The most irritating concession they went along with was the policy of bilingualism, established by former Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau in the '60s and '70s. Pols and...
It is increasingly difficult, however, to visualize any of the starting five lifting his arms in the traditional V before an adoring convention come July -- let alone graciously accepting George Bush's concession on Election Night. Bill Clinton for a time looked like a deflating balloon, the air hissing out...
Perhaps. But skeptics were quick to point out that the two Koreas had seemed on the brink of peace before -- most notably in 1972 -- and failed to achieve real reconciliation. Nor, despite Seoul's unilateral concession on nukes, did the latest agreement mention the region's most pressing security concern...
To be fair, the staff position does concede that student action is also necessary to remedy the problems inherent in diversity, but this concession is offered as a mere caveat before proceeding to the "real" solution. The bent of the article is revealed not only in what it discusses (how...
Baker held marathon talks with Qian, President Yang Shangkun, Premier Li and party chief Jiang Zemin, ticking off U.S. concerns about political repression, arms sales, the trade imbalance, North Korea. A senior State Department official, recalling Baker's eight months of shuttle diplomacy that led to the Middle East peace...