Word: pragmatist
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Leader Peres, 57, is a careful pragmatist given to governing through well-wrought political alliances rather than by dint of personality. A protégé of David Ben-Gurion, Israel's founder and first Prime Minister, Peres got started in politics as a youth and by 1974 had risen to become Defense Minister. In a recent interview with TIME, Peres outlined his plan to deal with Israel's economic crisis. He said that his first priority would be to slash funds for settlements in the occupied Arab territories. Next he would try to obtain an agreement among...
...posts that their predecessor had held simultaneously. Brezhnev took over the much more powerful job of Party Secretary, while Kosygin became Premier, which put him in control of the day-to-day management of the Soviet government. Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger viewed Kosygin as a pragmatist, with "a glacial exterior" who was "orthodox if not rigid...
...other actresses are competent enough to fill stereotypes without seeming too shallow: Kate, who ambitiously pursues a career despite the loneliness it forces on her; Samantha, a pragmatist who decides she is not very talented and therefore should sacrifice herself to a husband who is; Holly, a kind person who lacks the drive to succeed; Muffett, who says she is not promiscuous, but hates going to bed alone; Leilah, who realizes she is not brilliant, but only "highly competent," and so moves to Iraq to make competent additions to the field of sociology; and Susie Friend, an over-enthusiastic...
...somehow to copy them.' This was where the split began to grow, because there were other people saying, 'Wait a minute. There is a great danger in following this path toward Government intervention.' " He made very clear his conviction that unity has been restored because the "pragmatists" have now conceded to the conservatives, and equally clear that he was not using the word pragmatist as a compliment...
...Blacksmith is routinely abused and cheated by the white farmers he worked for, at the same time he is contemptuous of the half-drunken mysticism of the Aborigines, now to be forever kept on the outskirts of a completely foreign civilization. Blacksmith seems at first to be the deferential pragmatist, the smiling farmhand, somehow above the almost ludicrous racism of his employers. When he's cheated he laughs his strange Aborigine laugh and goes on--he seems to sense the irony. One sees his opportunism as he silently smiles through an uncomfortable dinner with the missionary couple who raised...