Word: pragmatist
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Ruella doesn't see success in terms of dreams. To this pragmatist, the reasons for success are straightforward. ?The secret of this company is no secret,? she says. ?Mr. Dolce and Mr. Gabbana provide clothes for lots of women to wear. Yes, we must manage a big company with prudence, but we never speak about ?if we do this, we will find more customers.? Customers want to find what Mr. Dolce and Mr. Gabbana design...
...Steven Breyer: The most junior member of the Court, Breyer was appointed by Bill Clinton in 1994, replacing Harry Blackmun. Breyer is seen as a pragmatist who often takes issue with Justices Scalia and Thomas's narrow view of constitutional rights, preferring to consider the impact of law on the lives of everyday people. Rose to prominence and gained respect of congressional Republicans after deconstructing extremely complex deregulation guidelines for the airline industry. Often sides with the liberal wing of the Court: Justices Souter, Ginsburg and Stevens...
...Reagan's advisers think the President should distance himself from the House panel's bill and let it die quietly. They oppose many parts of the legislation, including the new maximum tax rates for individuals and businesses. But many politicians think that Treasury Secretary James Baker, a noted pragmatist, will persuade the President to go along with the plan. Reagan wants to leave behind a legacy of tax reform, and the Ways and Means proposal is the only tax bill in town. If the President helps push it through the House, there is still an opportunity to make it more...
...seen before. The Chinese system is still so new that it does not have an agreed name. Outside analysts often call it "market socialism," and some Chinese speak of creating a "commodity economy." Deng's formulation is a rather uninspiring "socialism with Chinese characteristics." But then Deng, a thoroughgoing pragmatist, has never been much for labels. His most celebrated saying is a homely metaphor to the effect that it does not matter whether a cat is black or white so long as it catches mice...
...negotiate on his Strategic Defense Initiative, better known as Star Wars. This is the kind of issue that puts the two sides of Reagan's persona at conflict. The visionary side sees SDI as a salvation for mankind, a foolproof way of rendering the nuclear threat impotent. The pragmatist in the President may realize that some sort of compromise on SDI, perhaps an agreement to forgo its development and deployment phases for a time, might be the only way of winning Soviet agreement to deep cuts in the mounting arsenals of offensive weaponry. Indeed, the single most fateful decision...