Word: facing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Much has been said about my management style . . . When it came to managing the NSC staff, let's face it, my style didn't match its previous track record...
...dismantled, only some 1,500 of the estimated 50,000 warheads would be removed from superpower arsenals. Moreover, existing strategic forces can easily cover the targets now handled by them. Still, West European leaders have long clamored for removal of the Soviet SS-20s. They now have to face the very real possibility of such an event and its complicated consequences. Diplomats may be recalling an aphorism of Oscar Wilde: "When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers...
...visits a year, as well as monitoring of Soviet production, storage and training sites. Such arrangements would of course be reciprocal, giving the Soviets access to high-security areas in the West. Says Shultz: "Everyone is edgy about intrusive verification. But it's something we've all got to face up to, and that's all there...
...Phasing out those payments is kind of like phasing out the robbery of a 7-Eleven," chortled ex-Governor White. Democrats hope to exploit the issue in the difficult budget battles that face the recession-plagued state by charging that Clements has proposed a freeze on educationfunding while appearing to care more about helping football players...
...folk wisdom on how to deal with foreigners. "It showed the essential traits of the image the Chinese have of themselves," he explains, "the final victory of the resourceful Chinese over the crafty foreigner, and the ability of the Chinese to know how to act without having anyone lose face." The tale that ecologists were using airplanes to drop vipers into the woods of Perigord (as prey for endangered hawks) expressed provincial contempt for ecologists as impractical outsiders. "No one bothered to ask whether it wouldn't be cheaper to rent a car or truck to release the snakes," says...