Word: heavyhandedness
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More troubling to lawyers is a constitutional question: whether the Government can penalize allegedly false criticism of one of its operations by withdrawing the license of a station. Declares First Amendment Expert James Goodale of New York University Law School: "The approach by the CIA is heavyhanded and shows that...
Had the director and the playwright been more inventive with the first half of the production, The Deadlined might have engaged the audience earlier. Because the actors appear initially too restrained, and the early script is so heavyhanded, the early vignettes tend to fall flat.
Seeking to develop an axis of moderate Arab nations that could counterbalance Syria's power, Hussein began reaching out to Egypt. Last December, Amman signed a trade agreement with Cairo, reducing import barriers between the two countries. Meanwhile, Arafat met with both Mubarak and Hussein; by July, he had...
As the Administration contends, these spokesmen are huffing and puffing to fan fears that could rebound against Reagan in November. The Administration, in turn, hopes that the tactic will backfire, vindicating Reagan's depiction of the Soviets as heavyhanded troublemakers who cannot be trusted or engaged in normal diplomacy...
Meanwhile, Feldstein kept calling for tax hikes. That irritated the White House, which had quietly abandoned its contingency-tax proposal. Spokesman Larry Speakes telegraphed the displeasure by telling reporters at a briefing that Feldstein was talking "too often and too much." Stooping to heavyhanded ridicule, Speakes alternately pronounced the economist...