Word: foreign
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Ambassador to the U.S. and now Maxwell's chief of staff, enters with a load of letters. Maxwell pays the tall, handsome aristocrat something like a quarter of a million dollars a year to add a touch of class to his kingdom. Jay arranges meetings, meals and galas with foreign dignitaries and fields charity requests. "I am not the Salvation Army," bellows Maxwell, as he signs checks for needy causes. But Jay's real challenge is simply to keep the emperor's attention. After the first few letters, Maxwell's mind ticks elsewhere. He can drill to the core...
Within hours, the markets echoed that skepticism, accelerating the dollar's fall to a low rate of 121.52 yen. Improved trade figures did not stanch the bleeding; the damage was halted only by the purchase of $5 billion by foreign central banks, led by the Bank of Japan. Noted John Williamson, a senior fellow at Washington's Institute of International Economics: "Foreign investors are not happy. They read Bush's lips...
...much time with Greenspan as with Bush.) Meanwhile, Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, in yet another deft diplomatic thrust, announced that he would make a surprise visit to the United Nations next month. The President and President-elect ruled out any impromptu superpower bargaining. Still, complained a senior Bush foreign policy adviser, "we're already being expected to govern. It isn't fair, but we aren't able to ignore those expectations...
Prior to his appointment as ambassador in 1981, Gotlieb, as Secretary of state for external affairs, held the top position in the Canadian foreign ministry...
...sick and tired of a lot of foreign representatives descending on my country and picking up on all the dirty work instead of all the beauty, promise and goodwill," Botha said. Amid hisses and catcalls, he refused to accept the traditional vote of thanks and quoted instead from a speech by Boer War leader Paul Kruger to a group of foreigners. "His opening words were 'Friends, citizens, thieves and enemies,' " said Botha. "And that is how I look upon you this evening...