Word: hardheadedness
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With her first coast-to-coast tour just completed, Lacy now seems ready to fly, as she sings, "high like an angel." Her flight plan is at once hardheaded and mystical.
Peter Jay, who served as British Ambassador to Washington during the first two years of the Carter Administration, credits Vance with repairing strains that had developed in allied relations during the Nixon and Ford Administrations, when Kissinger often negotiated with Moscow over the allies' heads. Says Jay: "Cy Vance...
That was one of Ford's quandaries last week as he met in Washington with some of the hardheaded realists who would help to shape his campaign strategy. Ford also invited 18 Republican Governors to meet with him in Washington to consider his possible candidacy-but when only four...
The Complete Consumer Book by Bess Myerson. The shopper who spends $9.95 for this book will discover that even consumer advocates can be guilty of false and misleading labeling: Myerson is by no means "complete." The 100 or so pages devoted to owning a house, for example, dispatch property insurance...
Tuggle's approach to his tale is refresh ingly hardheaded; he does not bother with psychological attitudinizing, superfluous subplots or forced comic relief. Once he has introduced us to his characters, as well as to Alcatraz's labyrinthal layout and elaborate security procedures, he unveils his puzzle: How...