Word: discreeter
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Although the combatants exchanged some discreet accusations of dirty pool, their encounter contained few surprises for those familiar with earlier installments in the forensic series...
More Tightfisted. Gordon is eminently discreet, carefully avoids the limelight and insists that he is only a staff worker for the President. But he has quietly emerged as one of Washington's rising powers, and his influence on economic policy within the Administration is steadily widening. That influence has been enlarged by the situation of the Government's two chief advisers on economic policy: Chief Economic Adviser Walter Heller will leave Government service this fall, and Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon does not expect to be kept in his post for another Johnson term. Gordon...
...shadow of Soviet guns, Finns must be discreet. Even so, many outspokenly deplore President Kekkonen's servile attitude to Moscow. Kekkonen's attempt to sell Scandinavia Moscow's plan for an atom-free zone in northern Europe was roundly snubbed by the other Nordic countries...
...specialist, Richard Goodwin, 32, and Horace Busby, 40, a University of Texas graduate and longtime Johnson friend. Goodwin cranks out major texts in far less time than Kennedy's Ted Sorensen did, and Johnson insists that he does it with just as much style. Busby is a quiet, discreet intellectual. Warns one experienced Washington hand: "Watch Buz. He's a comer...
Lovable Green Giant. Always sensitive about its bigness, and reluctant to be viewed as the great profitmaker that it is, A.T.&T. has devised one of the most effective lobbying and public relations systems in industry. It keeps many discreet and well-connected lobbyists in Washington and in the state capitals. The phone company's public relations campaign paints it as a lovable green giant of communications. In fact, it is so anxious to be loved that it polls 80,000 stockholders each year to find out what they think about the company, even financed a study to determine...