Word: outwait
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Part of the U.S. strategy is to avoid polemics with Israel, and for this Secretary of State George Shultz, self-effacing and temperate, is well suited. He too turned up on a Face the Nation show. Fending off the loaded and provocative questions of interviewers, Shultz blandly proposed to outwait Begin's rejection, confident in the end that the American proposals were the surest guarantor of peace. Not flashy, but effective...
...arouse ire and indignation at every turn, and virtually every move has precipitated a battle with city politicians. Harvard has won almost every one of those battles; since its founding, the University has been protected by statute and tradition from city regulation, and while it has occasionally had to outwait angry residents, it has rarely bent to their demands...
...University has systematically denied the complaints over the years and for the most part tenants have been ineffective in pressing their claims. "They are able to outwait us." one tenant says...
...project and, to the muted delight of community leaders, purchased a $4 million Harvard Square parking lot where a developer had once hoped to build two 20-story towers. This year's small battles are typical of this fight--"you win once in a while, but the University can outwait you," one community activist says...
Unresponsives are too frightened, confused or hostile to discuss matters. Bramson suggests trying to outwait them: stare at them in a friendly fashion, but say nothing. As the growing silence produces anxiety, throw your eyebrows up expectantly. Chances are the unresponsive will break first, particularly if you have practiced coping with awkward silences yourself...