Word: hinting
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...tough in recent weeks that the world's other Finance Ministers wondered if he would ever stop threatening and start negotiating. Last week he finally tempered his tone and began bargaining. At the long-awaited meeting in Washington of the 118-country International Monetary Fund, Connally dropped a hint that the U.S. was willing to give a little to gain a lot. That hint probably did more to advance the cause of real monetary reform than all the confused discussions that had been going on since President Nixon's famous Aug. 15 speech...
...past ten years. He is convinced that economic progress must precede political change, a term he cautiously leaves undefined. Change comes "slowly in this country," he told TIME'S William Rademaekers. "But I see change coming. I personally believe it will come in January or February"-a hint that Franco might step down at that time...
Nixon said wage-price controls will not be a permanent part of his economic policy, but gave no hint as to when they might be eliminated...
...leadership is not far from his description of himself. "If I have an obsession," Hickel writes, "it is always to be positive." That also might be the book's chief failing, for he skips over many of the less impressive aspects of his tenure. There is not a hint that he was a poor administrator of the sprawling, 70,000-man Interior Department...
...cardinal sin of any news correspondent is misrepresentation, and it applies equally to print and electronic journalists. Television newsmen have been understandably touchy about any hint of film fakery ever since CBS had to admit in hearings before the House Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee last June that one sequence in a controversial documentary, The Selling of the Pentagon, had been used out of context. CBS declined to supply its film files to the committee, claiming that unused "outtakes" could be kept as confidential as a reporter's notes under the First Amendment press-freedom guarantees. Congressman Harley Staggers...