Word: pragmatist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...next five years, swelling the population by more than 20% and costing the government an estimated $26.5 billion. Israel's Finance Ministry predicts that U.S. failure to deliver on the guarantees would drive up unemployment from 11% to 16.2%. Ideologue though Shamir may be, he is a pragmatist who knows when he must deal. Says his spokesman Ehud Gol: "We are asking, after all, and they are giving...
That someone as autocratic as Turner would accept guidance from another man is not as surprising at it seems: Turner is above all a pragmatist. "I've never met anybody who can so quickly recognize a truth and internalize it," says Jane Fonda, whom Turner married on Dec. 21 after a two-year courtship. "When he feels something is right, he just does it. Without a backward look." When he launched CNN, the Turner who at his WTBS Superstation had relegated the news to a 3 a.m. comedy show that occasionally featured a German shepherd and lemon meringue pies became...
MESSIAH, 3 Vols. (harmonia mundi). Handel's Messiahs -- that's right, Handel composed more than one version of his beloved oratorio -- have become a holiday ritual since the premiere 250 years ago. A pragmatist as well as a great composer, Handel penned several alternative sections to accommodate the strengths and limitations of different musical ensembles. This recording assembles, as addenda, all the alternative arias, recitatives and choruses (hence the three volumes). Nicholas McGegan, a major authentic-period- instrument and practiced Handel conductor, leads marvelous singers and players in a splendid performance. Hallelujah...
Raised in Michigan, Kalkanis presents himself as a subdued, thoughtful pragmatist with a strong commitment to student services, or what he calls "tangible benefits to undergraduates." He speaks in terse, precise tones that are measured and direct...
...nuclear abolitionist, no Jimmy Carter daring to dream about the "elimination of all nuclear weapons from this earth." Nor was it Ronald Reagan, putting his faith in a pure defense that would render nuclear weapons "impotent and obsolete." Instead, it was classic George Bush, a traditionalist and pragmatist, striving for boldness without undermining a quality he values even more: prudence...