Word: statesman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Brian Mulroney will become what Pierre Trudeau so desperately wanted to be, a world-class statesman. Whereas Trudeau will be remembered for his aloofness, his coarse behavior and his plundering of the public purse, Mulroney will most likely make his mark by restoring social and economic balance to Canada...
...smile said a number of things. It was, first, a calculated effort to demonstrate Soviet pleasure at the upcoming resumption of talks with leaders of the United States. It was also meant to cast Mondale as the more reasonable, moderate half of the Presidential candidate duo, as a practical statesman aware of the urgency of superpower communications. At a brief and formal meeting with the President earlier in the week, by contrast, Gromyko was careful to maintain an expression of utter solemnity...
...Senate campaign is Washington reminds us. Here, no movie star or pop singer was good enough--this time the consultants had to reach into the grave, literally. It is hardly surprising that a candidate might look wistfully to the towering giants of bygone eras; Jackson was the only statesman my state has generated, a man respected in both Washingtons. Since he dies, several communities in Washington State have been vying to see which can name the most things after...
...days after Dalyell's disclosures, the weekly New Statesman, citing unidentified British sources, reported that Thatcher disregarded a U.S. peace initiative and decided to sink a major Argentine vessel. She first ordered the sinking of the aircraft carrier Veinticinco de Mayo, but the nuclear submarine assigned to the task lost track of the carrier. Another sub later hit the Belgrano instead. The magazine reported that some of Thatcher's advisers objected that it was against international law to attack a ship without warning. The New Statesman also said that the British sent a Polaris submarine armed with nuclear...
...imperfect political art. Bush so far has limited his jabs to Mondale, waiting for the novelty of Ferraro to wear off. "George by nature is not a slasher," assures a current campaign official. However, notes Bush's press secretary, Peter Teeley, "we're not running for statesman...