Word: statesmanly
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...developed economy to begin with. On a straight mathematical projection, the size of the aid program needed to produce even a measurable and sustained rise in Russian standards of living would be so enormous -- on the order of $1 trillion a year for years on end -- that no Western statesman would even discuss...
...traditional tribal chief, the jovial dictator has had little difficulty charming nearly all U.S. Presidents stretching back to John Kennedy. Political friendships with a long line of leaders in China, Romania, France, North Korea, South Africa and Israel (where he trained as a paratrooper) made him a widely traveled statesman. Some were seduced by Mobutu's eagerness to serve as a bulwark against Soviet expansion in the heart of Africa, others by Zaire's natural treasure trove of diamonds, gold, cobalt, copper, and the uranium used in the American nuclear bombs dropped on Japan in World...
...Czech Republic, Havel will preside from the same office in Prague's Hradcany Castle over about two-thirds of his former country. The onetime playwright and erstwhile communist-era dissident promised to maintain a "moral dimension" in his government and to serve as a "more experienced and wiser" statesman in promoting accord with his nation's new neighbor, Slovakia...
...announced plans to initiate libel suits against two magazines for printing allegations that he had conducted an extramarital affair with a fashionable London caterer, Clare Latimer. The long-whispered rumor was printed last month in the satirical monthly Scallywag, and repeated, albeit skeptically, by the left-wing weekly New Statesman and Society. Latimer, 41, promised similar legal action...
Kalkanis is a hard-working, elder statesman on the council. "The clearest difference is that I have the most experience in dealing with the student body at large and the administration," he said. "I've always tried to be open and inclusive...