Word: diplospeak
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Those are the main jobs. She's also got to keep her boss from stumbling into any unexpected crises, and she brings to this a passion for problem solving and cutting through diplospeak. When she sits down with her senior aides each morning, they reel off two-minute reports on North Korean famine, the chemical-weapons treaty pending in Congress, the hostage standoff in Peru. "How does our policy jibe with Peruvian policy?" she demands as she prepares for a meeting with President Alberto Fujimori. "I'm fascinated to know what's happening inside that embassy...
...been fully supportive of U.S. efforts -- cutting off arms to Iraq, voting for U.N. resolutions establishing a worldwide embargo -- without claiming any major part for itself. And it has rebuffed all attempts to drive a wedge between itself and Washington. In what was officially described as a "frank" (diplospeak for stormy) meeting in Moscow with Baghdad Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz, Gorbachev repeated his insistence that there is only one way to end the crisis: unconditional Iraqi withdrawal from Kuwait...
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