Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...crowd cheering when George Polsky, Frank Huerta, John Masland and Seth Handy battled and beat their Diplomat opponents in a series of intense and successful matches. Handy toyed with the sounds of Diplomat-ic silence, losing his first two games, and then squeezing out of a tie-breaker to win the last game...
Having learned the way of the Diplomat, the team then undiplomatically shook the Quakers' record, storming...
...Hatfield complains that the breakfast has become a status symbol and "a ceremony of civil religion." He has introduced a Senate motion to abolish the affair. Many foreign observers find the whole phenomenon of Potomac piety somewhat disconcerting. "It is incomprehensible to most Europeans," sniffs a British diplomat. "It's almost as bad as Freemasonry...
...produce enough quality goods to satisfy consumer demand. With wages now growing faster than productivity, inflation threatens. Other figures indicated that exports fell by 2% in 1988, while imports (much of it food) rose by 6.5%. "The honeymoon for Gorbachev has ended at home," says a Moscow-based Western diplomat. "Gorbachev's been in power too long to blame it all on Brezhnev...
...party slot by Gorbachev last September. Some tea-leaf readers see the increasing visibility of such officials as evidence of Gorbachev's waning clout; others see it as evidence of his strength, indicating that he feels secure enough to delegate considerable responsibility. Either way, notes a Western diplomat, "the power used to be in the hands of one man, but it's loosening...