Word: dealing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Budgeting and dealing with the press are things that all government officials should know how to do, whether they be on the local, state or federal level," says Singer. "The classes were very practical. I don't think I was well-equipped to deal with budgeting or with the legislature in Massachusetts or the press before I went to the Kennedy School. It gave me more confidence...
...crude, Saudi Arabia now wants more of the profits its oil generates -- from the ground to the gas tank. The Saudi government has agreed to pay $1.2 billion for a 50% interest in Texaco's refining and marketing operations in 23 U.S. states, mostly in the East. If the deal is approved by both governments and Texaco's shareholders, it would represent the largest Arab investment in the U.S. oil industry...
Like many of Gorbachev's ideas, the notion of convening a special conference is traceable to the founder of Russian Communism, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin. In the early days of Soviet power, such extraordinary sessions, held between regular quinquennial party congresses, were convened to deal with emergencies, major and minor. The practice fell into disuse under Joseph Stalin's dictatorship, although it was Stalin who called the last one, in 1941, to rally the party and the country against the German invasion. Gorbachev has revived the practice in hopes that it will give impetus to his reforms and provide him with...
...thus seemed a diplomatic miracle when, on May 5, Lefebvre signed a protocol with the Vatican specifying the terms for a reconciliation. But the Archbishop had second thoughts as he reflected upon the carefully crafted deal -- and listened to the advice of his more conservative followers. Last week the agreement fell through, threatening what to Rome is that most frightful of events: schism...
...weather report is not encouraging. Says National Weather Service Meteorologist Lyle Alexander: "We're not looking forward to a great deal of shower activity." The spring wheat crop in the northern Great Plains could be salvaged if rains come in the next week or two, but a large high-pressure ridge makes that unlikely. Crops are surviving now on moisture stored in the soil. "There's about two minutes left in the game," says County Agent Carl Wilbourn of Leflore County, Miss. "But there's still a chance...