Word: obvious
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...obvious from the start, when everybody was chanting 'USA, USA'," Kerr said. "I've played internationally, and when you go to a country like Costa Rica, you get your share of abuse. But those American flags in the stands today helped us. I didn't see too many Harvard flags waving...
That night, Corazon Aquino hardly slept. Seven times she called her executive secretary, Joker Arroyo, with questions. At 8 a.m. she summoned her Cabinet and asked each member what she should do about Enrile. It was obvious, said a staffer, that she had made up her mind...
That this should be happening now is not without its irony. The need for a new covert channel is hardly obvious in an administration that has mounted large numbers of secret schemes under CIA auspices. The development is ironic in another sense, as this NSC staff has been widely faulted for not meeting its primary responsibility of effective policy coordination...
...government's intelligence system." Few governments, particularly in Asia, would manufacture a story that was guaranteed to result in a loss of face with its allies. That is precisely what happened in Seoul after Kim surfaced. Says Daryl Plunk, a Korea specialist at Washington's Heritage Foundation: "It is obvious that South Korea has been embarrassed by this...
...case, it should have been obvious that the arms shipments could not be kept secret forever and that once they were known, the U.S. would appear to be violating its own strictures against paying ransom to kidnapers and their supporters. That impression is now out, raising potentially disastrous questions about the Administration's credibility and competence. The underlying cause is the same one that has led to other foreign policy failures: the President's predilection for seat-of-the-pants diplomacy. To prevent any further unraveling of his foreign policy, the President needs to rein in the NSC staff...