Word: humbugs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Rajiv's greatest liability -- the fact that he was not by nature a politician -- was also his virtue. "Those who talked to Rajiv Gandhi noted the absence of humbug that is so typical of our political leaders," wrote Datta-Ray. Yet many thoughtful Indians and foreign leaders are not at all ready to write off the world's largest democracy. "Indian democracy has weathered such blows before and can do so again," said a senior British diplomat. Economist John Kenneth Galbraith, U.S. ambassador to New Delhi during the Kennedy Administration, called the system "imperfect but secure." Said Galbraith: "The idea...
...Representative and chief negotiator, Carla Hills. She is seen in Europe as tough and competent but not much given to grandstanding or gladiatorial gestures. That is a good combination because Europeans bridle at the occasional American tendency to clothe naked commercial interest in the language of moral philosophy -- "sanctimonious humbug," as a former British Trade Minister calls...