Word: diplomatized
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...always started with the people first and not with the technical stuff...he really was an academic diplomat," Christensen said. "It takes incredible diplomatic skill to get people to see where they agree and to minimize disagreements...
...making jurors see things his way. ``Apart from the fact that he is a very skillful lawyer,'' says friend and fellow lawyer Edi M. O. Faal, ``he has the unique ability to appeal to all people across the board, across racial lines. He would have been a very successful diplomat...
...toward a free-market economy, Deng was able to keep China's political system firmly in the hands of an ever more sclerotic Communist Party. When he finally dies, the relative strength of these competing systems will hang in the balance. "No one can replace him," explains a European diplomat. "There aren't many people who know how to move forward...
...ambassador's residence in Algiers. He was brought to the cockpit and pleaded into the microphone: "If you don't allow the plane to depart, they will kill me." The French wanted the ramp pulled back. "The Algerians said, 'No, no, we are sure they are bluffing,' " a French diplomat recalled. "Five minutes later, the hijackers killed the cook and threw his body on the tarmac...
...that of French painting itself. He left Paris and went to Morocco -- an arduous journey in those days, on winter roads to Marseilles and then by naval frigate to Tangier. It was made easier by his connections. The 34-year-old painter was traveling with his friend, a French diplomat named Charles de Mornay, sent to conclude a treaty with Moulay Abd-er-Rahman, the Sultan of Morocco. (France had conquered neighboring Algeria the year before and did not want any Moroccan interventions in its new colony.) The mission, including Delacroix, arrived in Morocco in January 1832 and stayed...