Word: evenhandedness
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Grumbled Denis Healey, the Labor Par ty's shadow Foreign Secretary: "The time has come when we must tell the U.S. that the attitude of an evenhanded broker is not quite enough." In contrast, Prime Minister Thatcher and her ministers last week accepted the fact that Haig had to...
Last year's budget was rated the most unpopular in 30 years, so Howe had only to be fairly moderate and evenhanded to come out ahead. In fact, his modest proposal for a $2.35 billion expansion of the economy managed to win approval from business leaders and even backbench...
THE LATEST BATCH of heartless cuts recommendations from Washington has spawned more destruction than just the disappearance of whole categories of financial aid. An unavoidable "ripple effect" goes further. It forces strapped universities to retrench on evenhanded and compassionate admissions policies they can no longer afford.
Then, too, Haig is fearful that Lebanon could again erupt in violence, thereby wrecking any chance of a peace settlement or an "evenhanded" U.S. policy in the region. Says one U.S. official: "Israel would go to war, and we would have to decide between supporting Israel or rejecting Israel, and...
Truffaut has always been fascinated by the destructive potential of obsessed love. He handles it here with a detachment that never becomes dispassion, a generous and evenhanded sympathy for both its victims that is not allowed to slip into melodrama, satire or even irony. This time, in fact, he provides...