Word: heavyhandedness
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"Like your manifesto, Comrade?" asks one heavyhanded Tory ad, going on to compare eleven points in the Communist Party manifesto with identical ones in Labor's. Among other policies, the manifesto would commit a Labor government to undertaking a hefty and inflationary public spending program, leave the European Community...
The explosion of economic despair in Brazil's most populous state (25 million) posed the first major challenge to Governor Andre Franco Montoro, who has been in office for barely a month. A member of the center-left Brazilian Democratic Movement, Montoro was swept into power last November in...
Some of that opposition may also be exaggerated. The latest Nicaraguan claims of covert U.S. aid to the insurgents came as the rebels made a series of melodramatic radio broadcasts in which the so-called Nicaraguan Democratic Forces (F.D.N.), an alliance of anti-Sandinista guerrillas that includes many members of...
What made the defeat particularly bitter for the commanders was that the Druze had succeeded because the Israelis had prevented Christian reinforcements from reaching Aley. The Christians' relations with the Israelis have been in decline for some time, particularly as the result of Ariel Sharon's heavyhanded treatment...
Andropov's foreign debut may have seemed devoid of drama, but his low-key performance merited close attention. Said a French Sovietologist: "Basically, there is nothing "new, but there is a much more skillful use of language, adapted to the different audiences to which it is addressed." Long accustomed...