Word: neutralizer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dismay at the course the conference was taking. Could they not, he asked the delegates, avoid ideological rhetoric and argue out bilateral disagreements at "another place and at some other time?" Evidently not. The summit meeting made it abundantly clear that many of the supposedly nonaligned are anything but neutral. Indeed, the conference served as a forum for a wide range of attacks against alleged Western "imperialism...
...Kundera is a good writer, but like so many other dissident artists in Communist countries, the fights he starts in his satiric novels and stories are lost battles at the outset. In The Joke, Life Is Elsewhere and Laughable Loves, Kundera attempted to shift the combat to that more neutral ground known as the human comedy. Even so, he never really escapes the sadness and bitterness of recent Czech history...
...absolutely wrong to say that I led a bloc of OPEC hardliners, since Iran played a neutral role during the meeting...
Sullivan told a handful of reporters that he had considered naming proponents and opponents of the research and some neutral citizens to the review committee. But he said such a committee would resemble a "debating society" with antagonists attempting to sway neutral members...
...naming his own vice-presidential choice early, Reagan hoped to goad Ford into doing the same. Ford told TIME that there is "a possibility" he will reveal his decision before the convention. Much of the speculation centered on former Texas Governor John Connally. Connally, long stubbornly neutral in the Ford-Reagan battle, flew off to Washington the day Reagan announced his choice of Schweiker. Reagan, he had long ago concluded, was an intellectual and political lightweight who had now made a bad miscalculation...