Word: pragmatist
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Back in Poland in 1948, Gierek rose rapidly through party ranks, in part because of his reputation for toughness. When student riots broke out in 1968, Gierek warned that those who opposed the regime would have their "bones broken." Nonetheless, he also gained a reputation as a pragmatist who would try to look at a problem and find a practical solution that he could fit into Communist ideology...
...buddy Andrew Young now writes a column. He also makes speeches for Carter but says, "I can't sell this Administration uncritically." When asked whether he was not more philosophically in tune with Kennedy than Carter, Young grinned: "Yeah, very much so." This is the year of the pragmatist...
Philosophically, Ike was a pragmatist. "The path to America's future," he declared in 1949, "lies down the middle of the road." He liked to be called a "responsible progressive." Reagan talks a much harder ideological line; he is the fount of Reaganism, after all. But, in Sacramento, Reagan demonstrated a flexibility about raising taxes and welfare payments that wen against his own strict dogmas...
When I was a kid, before I understood the importance of appearances and tokenism, I was a hard-headed pragmatist in the best free-enterprise tradition. Gifts were rewards for behavior I approved of; on occasion I would inform my younger brother that if he didn't give me the baseball bat he would get no birthday present. The implication being that Christmas might be equally as barren...
...that so many of these Senators who refused to pay the price for fiscal discipline just one month ago are now eager to make public demands to end such profligacy." Says Oklahoma Senator Henry Bellmon, ranking Republican on the Budget Committee: "He's an enormously able person, a pragmatist without many ideological hang...