Word: explaining
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...next stage in the process -- an attempt by American negotiators to explain to their Soviet counterparts what the letter means -- will be complicated by a similar dispute in Washington. State is trying to interpret the letter in a way that leaves the negotiators with more latitude, while Defense protests and obstructs every inch of the way. The Soviets, who have been complaining about not knowing whom to listen to in the cacophony coming out of Washington, will be all the more confused...
...evangelist and his firstborn son, recalled by another son, Luke. The rest, rich in incident, sounds the depths of sexual betrayal and despair. Treadwell calls himself a storyteller, a term that provides a sly, apt link between novelist and revivalist. Each, Wilson suggests, is trying in his way to explain the random nature of fate. In both the father's febrile sermons and the son's cool observation, there is no justice, no fairness. There is, however, the restless energy of a fine emerging writer...
...inconsistency of the film, not the weakness of specific moments, that detract from its effectiveness. At the end of the film, Varda suddenly and incongruously makes us feel sad when we watch Mona sicken, cry and freeze. One could try to explain away this sadness as a more universal quality than just sympathy for a pathetic girl. Maybe what you feel is regret at man's mortality and realization of the unavoidable limits of freedom, but this is pushing...
...department chief, as Kissinger did with Secretary of State William Rogers. Unfortunately for Poindexter, however, the NSC post is still widely considered a power center with such multiple responsibilities as massaging, if not coercing the departments, dealing with key legislators on critical issues and helping to sell and explain White House policy through press contacts. Not surprisingly, the reluctant Poindexter has been criticized for failing to perform these tasks effectively...
Perhaps so. But a few less puffs and more forceful words may be needed from the National Security Adviser as he faces a series of imminent tests. If the Administration cannot explain its South Africa policy more effectively, Congress seems ready to impose its own views. If there is to be another summit, the U.S. must decide where it is headed on arms control. Perhaps unfairly, the man who advises the easygoing President cannot afford to go too easy himself...