Word: cuttingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...George Shultz, a proud man with a strong sense of what is proper, it was a painful task. Before a national television audience, the Secretary of State described how he and his department had been humiliated, betrayed and ignored, cut out of some of the Reagan Administration's most crucial foreign policy decisions. For the U.S. as well, the witness Shultz bore was painful. His blunt description of "guerrilla warfare" within the Administration, his public denunciation of the way things were run and his refusal to tone down his criticism would have been extraordinary coming from a junior bureaucrat. Coming...
...lousy idea," sniped the Motor Vehicle Manufacturers Association. "Unwise and unwarranted," said the American Petroleum Institute. What caused Detroit and the oil industry to blow off steam last week were two Government proposals that could help cut down smog. The rules, put forth by the Environmental Protection Agency, would impose new controls on gasoline content and require improved pollution-control equipment on autos. Acknowledging that the proposals are "controversial," EPA Administrator Lee Thomas said oil companies and automakers "are going to have to spend additional money...
Faced with the chance to sign a record contract that would cut his friends in his band loose, Ritchie signs on for the sake of his family. But within days, the former Ricardo Valenzuela has cut his family name loose...
Stragetic Nuclear Forces. The critical question, says Hyland, is whether Gorbachev is willing "to recognize something along the lines of our version of stability." That would require the Soviets to cut their huge arsenal of silo-busting warheads, which pose a first-strike threat that could pre-empt the ability of the U.S. to retaliate. Some Soviet officials say they have come to accept the U.S. concepts of parity and are willing to go further by cutting back to a level of "minimal deterrence." That would involve each side keeping only enough weapons to assure that it could retaliate credibly...
Afghanistan. One clear-cut case is Afghanistan, which Ridgway calls a "symbol of what is troublesome to the West about Soviet conduct." Gorbachev has proclaimed a desire to withdraw from what he called a "bleeding wound," and the Soviets have even hinted that a national unity government might involve inviting back King Mohammed Zahir Shah, deposed in 1973. Yet their highly publicized pullout of 6,000 troops from Afghanistan last fall was an ill- disguised sham. Other soldiers soon took their place. The crucial test is not whether the Soviets will agree to a cease-fire, which would merely ratify...