Word: concessioner
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Wisely, Chamorro's first impulse was to strike a note of reconciliation. "There were no winners or losers in these elections," she told Ortega when the two met at her home the evening after the vote. Chamorro pressed a similar message in her victory speech. "This is an election that...
The Central Committee did implicitly acknowledge, however, that there is room for improvement, when it called for a "favorable environment for creative thinking and fruitful debate." In making that concession, the party appeared to be playing to the home audience. According to U.S. intelligence reports, CuTMEba is enduring an intense...
With a concession stand in one corner, an organ leading the crowd in cheers in another corner and two rinks which gave the air of the Roman Coliseum, these guys were serious.
The answer is no, or at least not yet. Pretoria's calls for change are not a recent concession to foreign pressure. As early as 1979, long before economic sanctions were considered, President P.W. Botha told his Afrikaner volk to "adapt or die." In 1986 he described apartheid as "outdated...
Not all Bush's initiatives have come across as wise. The President seemed to be toadying to the communist Chinese rulers who massacred pro-democracy demonstrators last June. He made a mockery of his sanctions against Beijing -- which called for, among other things, a ban on high-level political exchanges...