Word: discreeter
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...Washington's not simply scolding Arafat. More importantly, it's dispatched a senior State Department official on a discreet tour of Arab capitals to discuss the Jerusalem issue - cajoling Arafat into a deal on the Holy City will be impossible without the backing of a pan-Arab consensus, and Washington may be inclined to lean on Arab allies such as Egypt and Saudi Arabia to take some responsibility for fashioning a compromise. The art of compromise, as ever, will be finding a solution that each side can sell as a victory. And that's not at all inconceivable: Jerusalem...
...other motorists excitedly spot him. He pulls out a pack of Marlboros and jokes, his brown eyes devilishly twinkling, "I guess I shouldn't smoke before jogging, eh?" Outside the city, we stop on a country lane as an unmarked security car that has been following us at a discreet distance pulls up. Then we are off for the five-mile run, the King slowing his pace and shortening his circuit in kindness to an older, nonjogging journalist. "I don't even like running that much," he says, gabbing as he glides along. "But it's good for stress." Listening...
Taking on the toughest tasks in the darkest moments, seeking no credit and little reward, Daley is a type rare in Washington: hardworking, discreet, modest and loyal. Gore has dialed the right number. Now he had better listen...
...also known as mifepristone, is widely used in much of the world, and is prized for being both discreet - allowing women to induce abortions (largely without complications) in their own homes within 50 days of conception - and democratic, providing the possibility of abortion to women living in areas without doctors willing to perform the surgical procedure. But according to the drug's supporters, those very attributes will be effectively negated by the restrictions currently under consideration by the FDA; the rules include allowing only doctors trained to perform surgical abortions to prescribe the drug, a requirement that those doctors have...
...told Scott he was "too old, mate." Instead Gibson is playing a more age-appropriate he-man in The Patriot. And isn't that Guy Pearce, another Aussie, all straitlaced machismo in Rules of Engagement? Hollywood has discovered what we Australian women have understood for some time: the discreet charm of the Bloke...