Word: neutral
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...chief economist, assesses Burns' performance harshly: "There is no way to exonerate monetary policy from the disastrous economic performance of the last six years." It is a measure of the Chairman's skill as a Washington power and survivor that so few seem to be neutral about him or his policies...
...Bodleian some 17,000 volumes of chinoiserie; later he contributed 18 manuscripts that were blatant forgeries and promised other treasures that did not exist. During World War I, as a sub rosa operative, he embroiled high British officials and even the King in a plot to procure from neutral China at least 200,000 rifles. They never materialized. A few years later, he flimflammed an American firm that sought to print banknotes for the Chinese...
...points of diplomacy. Carter's remarks have generally been deliberate despite their informality. Before his news conference last week, both Secretary of State Cyrus Vance and Zbigniew Brzezinski, the White House National Security Adviser, suggested that Carter not use the term defensible borders. They proposed a more politically neutral substitute: "secure frontiers." Carter rather gingerly used both concepts and described the difference between them as "just semantics." Says TIME Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott, assessing Carter's foreign policy style: "Unprecedentedly public, yes. Occasionally feckless, yes. Controversial and provocative, to be sure. But off-the-cuff or casual, never...
...interior was spacious but its decor was neutral. Chiang Ch'ing was wearing a superbly tailored shirtwaist dress of heavy crepe de chine, with a full pleated skirt falling to midcalf, a style evocative of our early 1950s...
...coming up to Boston for a couple of days next week. Connally is only 59 or 60 and may be keeping his hat in the ring for a presidential bid in 1980. (Connally lectures on Wednesday, March 16, at 8:30 in Science Center B.) He steered a neutral course between Reagan and Ford up till the convention, and may have actually benefitted by Ford's defeat and the shambles in which it left the Republican Party...