Word: gist
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Only Mikhail Gorbachev and Mieczyslaw Rakowski know precisely what was said during their 40-minute telephone conversation. But the gist of the Soviet leader's advice to the Polish Communist Party chief last Tuesday apparently came down to this: Go with the flow. Within hours the Communists' belligerent demands for a greater role in Warsaw's as yet unformed government were replaced by conciliatory calls for "partner-like cooperation" with Solidarity. The arduous and uncharted process of piecing together the East bloc's first non-Communist government was back on track...
...gist of my speech is worry. The world is a difficult place to raise children," Pauley says...
Sculptivity--working with clay to express your gist...
...busy as George Bush is these days, when two prior occupants of the Oval Office ask for an audience it would be impolitic to turn them down. Thus last week former Presidents Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter got 50 minutes of the President-elect's time to present the gist of a two-volume American Agenda report produced by a bipartisan staff of more than 300 experts and former Government officials. The message: reduce the budget deficit by $40 billion a year for the next four years, abandon the idea of a Star Wars defense that could totally shield...
DUKAKIS would do well to connect Bush's "chameleon-like" political nature with his ties to the Far Right. The gist of a Dukakis line of attack here would be that Bush is, if not a member, then a marionette of this reactionary fringe group, just as Bush has tried to link Dukakis to the radical left...