Word: soberly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...issues is important. I still think so, but I now have considerable doubts about the utility of these Veteran's Day activities. I am glad people are concerned, but I am worried because these discussions may make matters worse. Why? Because they encourage rhetoric and public posturing more than sober analysis. And if any subject needs sobriety, it is the prospect of nuclear...
Despite Reagan's and Haig's initial euphoria over the Senate AW ACS vote, at least some Administration officials are voicing an appropriately sober response. Said one senior Reagan aide: "We know that if we had been defeated, it would have been five steps back. We don't know whether going ahead with AWACS puts us five steps ahead. All we know is that it keeps us on the playing field, where we have to be." That is a realistic appraisal: the consequences of losing would have been serious for America's ability to conduct foreign policy around the world...
There are two movies going on here. In one of them, a sober and artistically respectable novelist named Liz Hamilton (Jacqueline Bisset) fights several decades of writer's block to emerge, finally, as an archetype of contemporary feminist dissatisfactions. In the other film, her best friend and worst rival, Merry Noel Blake (Candice Bergen), is a sort of magnolia-dipped Judith Krantz. She writes money-making trash and leads a life to match her art. She does not end up any happier than her pal, but she certainly has more...
...determining whether cooperation with Moscow is still possible. In preparation for the sessions, he held a rehearsal over the weekend, with a veteran State Department official who has watched Gromyko in action playing the Soviet and asking questions he is likely to raise. The Secretary has decided to be sober and businesslike in presenting U.S. complaints, on the logical ground that there is little prospect of cowing a wily old diplomatic pro who has dealt with seven of Haig's predecessors. (In 1943, when Haig was still a student at Notre Dame, Gromyko presented his credentials to F.D.R...
...years Christian West is in drunken stupor while Moslem East is sober! Henry Ratliff...