Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Kinnock called her handling of the crisis an "epic of bungling indecision." Two weeks ago, Thatcher's press secretary, Bernard Ingham, aggravated the tense situation by telling reporters that they could be "absolutely certain that we are not going to defend" a particular value of the pound. That unfortunate remark helped speed the currency's slide and forced Thatcher to abandon her hands-off policy...
...member of the Knesset since 1949, leaped to his feet and tried to tear the placard from her hands exclaiming, "It's shameful to demonstrate against guests." Cohen's response to Toubi: "You are no more than a guest on sufferance here." Cohen was quick to explain that her remark alluded to Toubi's being a Communist and non-Zionist. A shoving match ensued between Toubi and Yuval Ne'eman, another Tehiya Party member...
...York's Long Island. The gifted problem solver breezed through high school math and went on to stir up M.I.T. and Princeton, where the inverse proportion between his mental capacities and his social skills soon became obvious. The book's title is taken from the dean's wife's remark after she asked the young graduate student if he wanted cream or lemon in his tea, and he answered, "Both...
Treasury Secretary Donald Regan made that stunningly blunt remark last February in an effort to disown the 330-page annual report issued by the President's Council of Economic Advisers. The study had warned about the danger posed by the Administration's huge budget deficits. The White House last week went a giant step further, revealing that it may want to discard not only the council's embarrassing statements but the panel itself. The disclosure marks a historic nadir in the influence of the CEA, which was established by Congress in 1946 to be the President...
...some of its more assertive egos. In its own defense, the press can point to the many times in recent history the truth was not demanded about governmental actions and was not told. Before the press lets down its guard too far someone always remembers Harry Truman's remark about who belongs in the kitchen's heat...