Word: forthrightness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Students who have been demonstrating against Suharto's rule and in favor of democracy since February were more forthright. SUHARTO MUST BE THROWN OUT LIKE A DOG, read graffiti outside the elite Trisakti University in Jakarta. SUHARTO SUCKS THE PEOPLE'S BLOOD...
...Raghunath meets with U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott in Washington. Raghunath has not been told of the testing plans but is instructed to tell Talbott that New Delhi is still busily conducting its long security review. In hindsight, says National Security Adviser Sandy Berger, "they were not forthright." At the CIA operations center, no order is sent out to spend the millions of dollars and precious fuel that would be required to move the four satellites out of their regular--now compromised--orbits...
Perhaps. But Bundy, who oversaw Asia policy at State during the Vietnam buildup, fails to wrestle with the sad irony that has dogged his career. It was forthright, honorable, well-bred folks--the best and the brightest, such as William Bundy and his brother McGeorge--who unintentionally got us into Vietnam. It was secretive, manipulative folks--such as Nixon and Kissinger...
...urged a stronger Bosnian policy. Clinton appointed him ambassador to Germany and then, when the Bosnian crisis deepened, Assistant Secretary of State for European and Canadian Affairs. Holbrooke already enjoyed a reputation for being overbearing and peremptory--qualities that were to prove indispensable at Dayton--and he is forthright about being no shrinking violet, engagingly quoting unflattering references to himself. "If I were to operate in a routine manner," he writes, "I might make fewer enemies... " His narrative provides a compelling account of a life-and-death negotiation--the personal dynamics, the theatrical gestures, the unexpected snags and exasperating misunderstandings...
...selectivity of the internship program, institutions would need only state the facts: "Thank you for applying. Unfortunately you did not meet the qualification level for a White House internship this year. This is how you can work to become qualified in time for next year's application process." Forthright and honest, such a letter also takes the "We just didn't like you" element out of the picture...