Word: delphian
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...grope his way out of the wilderness, O'Neill turned to his old friends from the Ford Administration, Alan Greenspan and Dick Cheney. According to the book, Greenspan agreed with many of his proposals but could not do much from his Delphian perch. When O'Neill sought guidance from the Vice President about how to install a system that would foster vigorous and transparent debate, he got grumbles and silence but little sympathy. Soon O'Neill concluded that his powerful old colleague was rowing in a different direction."I realized why Dick just nodded along when I said...
...pain/ You belong to me/ You're all I ever wanted/ I'm all you'll ever be"). But hey, 90% of everything is theft. John built these songs on solid, familiar pop-rock foundations and wedded his musical ingenuity--the other, crucial 10%--to Taupin's brittle, Delphian lyrics...
...Delphian oracle could not have been more clairvoyant. In a recent issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, doctors at the Minnesota Department of Health and the University of Virginia reported a total of ten cases of suspected Thucydides syndrome -- flu complicated by TSS. Nine of the cases occurred during a major influenza outbreak in Minnesota in the winter of 1985-86. One occurred in Roanoke, Va., and an eleventh case, in Oregon, has since been reported to the CDC. Like the Athenian scourge, the two-part illness was lethal: six of the patients died. Langmuir says...
...always difficult, and Western diplomats hope to learn more about Deng's status during a visit to Peking this week by Secretary of State George Shultz. The signs of Deng's declining influence have been proliferating in recent weeks. The Chinese leader's public statements have become few and Delphian, and though he is frequently quoted in the press, most of the citations are from speeches he made at least four years...
...that the world was able to learn of it, the Communist vs. Communist fighting might just as well have been taking place in outer space. Communiques from both sides grew increasingly Delphian, as if the combatants were joined in a conspiracy of silence. Despite the official statements-which invariably included grossly exaggerated accounts of dead and wounded-Western analysts believed that up to 150,000 Chinese regular soldiers, arrayed across all of Viet Nam's six northernmost provinces, had captured or laid siege to eleven districts and at least 20 towns. The Chinese claimed to have destroyed six missile...