Word: heavyhandedness
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Mills' Robert J. Wert: The decision-making process has changed over the past ten years. A president now has to lead rather than dictate. He has to work for a consensus. You have to be something of a politician, and no academic can take too much of that. There...
Everyone is depicted as compromising public ideals for private advantage, and the satire is often obscure and heavyhanded. Yet, as in Fists, there is visual evidence that the director has an unerring flair for the camera, which watches the proceedings with a knowing bel òcchio and impudent authority. His...
Despite the demonstrations, Johnson emerged on top after his days down under. Along with a planeload of gifts ranging from a brace of albino kangaroos to miniature Samoan canoes, he was accorded an impressive measure of approval-occasionally in spite of himself. Too often, the President seemed somewhat heavyhanded, particularly...
Martin's irony may have been heavyhanded, but his point was valid. In the midst of unprecedented national prosperity, a sense of nervousness pervades U.S. banks, board rooms and union halls. The economy has entered a delicate stage where difficult decisions have to be made about such matters as...
>In ECUADOR, opposition is mounting rapidly against the well-meaning but often heavyhanded four-man military junta - even within the military. Three weeks ago, after the junta decreed a series of stiff tariff increases, Guayaquil merchants went on a seven-day protest strike, immobilizing the country's industrial capital...