Word: flair
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Minister Hans Modrow, Baker proposed a revamped role for the U.S. in the "whole and free" Europe that is aborning. Its theme: to refurbish existing international bodies so that they can bear new loads as they shed others. Although framed in general terms, the plan nonetheless displayed a creative flair and reassured allies that the U.S. intends to remain, in Baker's words, part of "Europe's neighborhood...
...This peaceful revolution was....against violence, dirt, mafias, privileges, persecutions," the once-banned playwright said in the nationally televised speech. "Let us preserve its purity, peacefulness, love and merry, friendly flair...
This evolution of American official attitudes has been subtle and uneven. It has been couched in caveats, often obscured by ambivalence and articulated, sometimes inarticulately, by a Chief Executive who has no flair for geopolitical grand rhetoric and has a tendency to step on his applause lines. Still, the change on the American side, if it continues, could turn out to be as important as Gorbachev's abandonment of the Leninist plan for winning the zero-sum game of history. The American equivalent of what the Soviets call new political thinking is all the more significant coming from the President...
Guber and Peters joined forces in 1980 to form a film-production company. Guber's nose for good script ideas and his flair for deal making meshed with Peters' hustle and tenacity. After several hits, including Missing and Flashdance, the partners signed their first, allegedly exclusive production contract with Warner...
Reagan may have gotten the specific facts wrong, but he was on to something important. It wasn't the solutions he offered, but the problems he identified that won him such wide support. His speeches reveal that his true flair was tapping public discontent with the status quo, not selling his policy proposals...