Word: soberly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...humiliation was particularly painful because the Aga Khan, 57, has long been regarded as a conscientious and sober-sided businessman. Unlike his playboy father, best known in the West for marrying actress Rita Hayworth, the Harvard-educated Aga Khan has kept a low-key image while raising Thoroughbred racehorses and amassing holdings that include resorts, newspapers and airlines. He spends most of his time overseeing a personal secretariat outside Paris that manages his Ismaili religious foundation and its 16,000 worldwide employees. The philanthropies fund dozens of clinics, orphanages and schools controlled by his followers in Asia, Africa...
...governance, and as Lincoln said, "Public opinion is everything. With it nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed." But several top Clinton aides say the President should stay home and address to the country from the Oval Office. Speaking for the national interest, they argue, requires a sober venue commensurate with the stakes. Like John Kennedy, however, Clinton fears overexposure. He is well aware that Franklin Roosevelt gave only four fireside chats during his first year in office (and only four more during his first term). Clinton knows too that it was F.D.R. himself who said "the public psychology...
...hard," says a longtime Clinton friend. "The badge of honor in his White House is the fact that no one dawdles and everyone brags about not sleeping." (Such an affection for process over substance dominated the early months of the New Frontier too. "Yeah," said Robert Kennedy in a sober, after-the-fact recollection, "those were the days when we thought we were succeeding because of all the stories on how hard everybody was working...
Accordingly, this meeting was presented as a sober working session, shorn of the pageantry that enveloped the old superpower summits. There was no state dinner, no glittering receptions, only six-plus hours devoted largely to pie charts and spreadsheets. Canadian newspapers were more witty than accurate in % describing it as an "alms race" -- not when the donors are reluctant to cross the starting line. But Topic A was the vexing and indispensable subject of American and other Western aid to Russia, complete with details of how much, when and for what projects. It might well be dubbed the "First...
...BOTTOM LINE: Filmmakers with sitcom sensibilities aim for sober truth and end up in gloomy muddle...