Word: hardheadedness
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More important, under this setup, aid would be handed out on a more hardheaded basis than it is now. Since Harry Truman launched the Point Four program of aid to underdeveloped countries in 1949, every President has argued that aid to struggling nations serves the national interest because, as Secretary...
Politics as Usual. What happened to Carvalho Pinto is typical of how Goulart operates. Pinto's predecessor as Finance Minister was Francisco San Tiago Dantas, whose promises of fiscal good behavior brought $398.5 million in U.S. aid at a tight moment. Dantas lasted less than six months before Goulart...
Denobilization. The grey-haired, blue-eyed earl has none of the hauteur of many English noblemen, and he has a pugnacious streak that his fragile air belies. In the Cabinet and the country at large, Home's blunt, hardheaded performance as Foreign Secretary has won him a degree of...
De Gaulle dreams of Europe only to the extent that Europe is France. The symbol of his nationalist policy took concrete shape last week when the French government let it be known that it now has two Mirage IV bombers capable of delivering atomic bombs (probably 60 kilotons each). While...
What will remain, for a while, is the memory of a crusty, highhanded octogenarian who clung pathetically to power well beyond the moment when he should have relinquished it. Ultimately, however, Konrad Adenauer can only be remembered as the German whose idealism and hardheaded grasp of reality in one decade...