Word: rashness
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...over. Yet while Yeltsin performs a useful function as a radical benchmark against which Gorbachev's reforms can be measured, it is far from clear what his popular brand of leadership and his simplistic platform could do to meet the country's needs at this critical juncture. Yeltsin's rash behavior and undemocratic instincts could turn out to be huge obstacles as he prepares to face the tough job of governing...
...History will honor him for having set in train the second Russian revolution. The White House, however, has favored him not for his historic qualities but for his personal and political ones: he was the polished, predictable, if dictatorial, leader of a unitary Soviet state. Yeltsin was the crude, rash, populist leader of a new political animal (Russia), a china-breaking democrat...
...those who oppose the Gates nomination say much of the evidence of book cooking is in the reports themselves -- and Gates read and approved all reports issued during his tenure as deputy director. Indeed, the Gates period produced a rash of complaints that, on controversial issues like Nicaragua, El Salvador and Iran, the agency tailored its reports to fit White House policy rather than providing objective conclusions. In the world of intelligence analysis, that is the ultimate...
...more pressing concern for the moment is Harvard's rash of injuries. Zimmerman has been sidelined from summer tournaments with a hamstring pull. Williams is recovering from foot surgery to repair a broken bone. And Brent LaTanzi--a sophomore contending for a position--is hampered by a shoulder injury...
...more pressing concern for the moment is Harvard's rash of injuries. Zimmerman has been sidelined from summer tournaments with a hamstring pull. Williams is recovering from foot surgery to repair a broken bone. And Brent LaTanzi--a sophomore contending for a position--is hampered by a shoulder injury...