Word: pragmatist
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...hopes to show that he is both practical and flexible, and that his statecraft must be taken seriously. Says a top presidential adviser: "The President is acutely conscious that there are plenty of uncertainties and even worries about him in Europe. I think he will impress them as a pragmatist, not a moralist, and as a guy who's got a firm grip on the problems." Fuel Sales. Carter arrives bolstered by firm public support at home. A New York Times/CBS News survey last week showed that he had a 64% favorable rating after announcing his energy program. That...
...American pragmatist hated war but nonetheless nourished a great admiration for the military virtues: hardihood, collective fervor, discipline. If these could be diverted from the battlefield, he reasoned, the nation could harness the spirit and energy usually evoked only by local conflict or foreign adventure and be the richer for it. He called for, instead of military service, a "conscription of the whole youthful population to form for a certain number of years a part of the army enlisted against Nature...
Neither a hawk nor a dove, Brown is a pragmatist suspicious of prevailing views. Says an old friend, Rand Corp. Economist Charles Wolf: "If exposed to hard-line views, he is likely to take softer ones, and if exposed to soft-line views he is likely to take harder ones." Says Teller: "Harold is a realistic, nondoctrinaire person...
...Ford's Western supporters are suggesting Bryce Harlow, an ex-Nixon aide who is now Procter & Gamble's Washington vice president, but he has declined the post in the past. Other possibilities are John Sears, who managed Reagan's campaign but is considered more of a pragmatist than an ideologue, and Baker, who has described himself as philosophically closer to Reagan than to Ford...
...than a year ago many Westerners had slated Deputy Prime Minister Teng Hsiao-ping for a position flanking Mao's. Since then, Teng has been denounced as part of a "right deviationist wing (conspiring) to reverse correct verdicts" or, as the American press loosely put the charge, as a pragmatist. Meanwhile, a relative unknown, Hua Kuo-feng, has glided past Teng to become the highest-ranking official in the country, holding both the prime ministry and the vice-chairmanship of the communist party...