Word: shapely
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Pennsylvania Avenue shuttle diplomacy was kept secret from the six directors of the contra leadership visiting Washington. By the time they discovered the plan, at the eleventh hour, they had no opportunity to help shape it. Privately, some grumbled that they had been sold...
...from Eddie's friends and family still leave him enigmatic, undefined. Perhaps it is impossible to know a young man who did not know himself. And Anson's authorial presence sometimes pushes his subject further into the background, making the mechanics of his reporting seem more significant than the shape of his subject...
...known 30 years ago what we know now, New Jersey and much of the rest of the country would be in better shape," admits Governor Thomas Kean, a strong believer in shoreline protection. "We wouldn't have built in those areas, and we wouldn't allow people to build in those areas." Even now, however, billions of dollars worth of coastal development -- some would say runaway overdevelopment -- cannot simply be abandoned. Says Chris Soller, management assistant of the National Park Service's Fire Island National Seashore, off Long Island: "It's a tough tightrope to walk. Our whole concept...
...problem, which particularly plagues a democracy, is that sometimes a nation has to make reliable, long-lasting commitments or forfeit its credibility. Nor can such a projection of force be totally risk-free. The decision to escort Kuwaiti tankers violated the maxim that helped shape America's successful foreign policy in the early years after World War II: the need to balance commitments and resources. But in this case the commitment has been made, and the damage that a humiliating retreat would inflict on America's reputation would be almost as great as that from the Iranian arms- for-hostages...
...details of how two of his most cherished goals were being pursued: the release of American hostages in Lebanon and the survival of the contras when Congress was refusing to arm them. The resulting portrait of the President was far from flattering. His occasional eagerness to actively shape policy and his memory of what he had decided appeared erratic and selective...