Word: statesmanly
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...record with 46 saves, Hank Steinbrenner proposed that the Yankees' ace reliever be immediately replaced by a career minor-leaguer who had just saved his first and only game in the majors. "I don't mind that from George. He signs the checks," says Righetti, the senior statesman among the denizens of baseball's Bronx Zoo. "What got me was how quick Hank was to react. He didn't have any patience either...
...inconspicuously in the audience (H.R. Haldeman, Ron Ziegler, Rose Mary Woods, among others from the memorable cast), but only George Bush mentioned the subject in passing. A flock of white doves went blurring over the University of Southern California Trojan marching band. The other Presidents praised Nixon as statesman and peacemaker. What seemed like several billion red, white and blue balloons were cut loose and sailed away in the flawless blue...
...representative from Chicago's North Side for three decades, he is impervious to election-year jitters. Even if he lost his seat, he could walk away from the Hill consoled by $1 million in campaign funds he gets to keep. Moreover, he may have been bitten by the statesman's bug. Colleagues say Rostenkowski envisions a grand compromise on the deficit as the "crowning achievement" of his career...
...refuse to play the game of corporate statesman. Thus your p.r. problem began instantly when you failed to rush to the scene of the Alaska spill. Was that a big mistake...
...become still tougher if he begins negotiating some kind of political compromise. "No individual leader is able to take on these enormous tasks on his own," he reminded listeners last week. The question is whether Mandela's children and grandchildren will be as magnanimous -- and patient -- as the elder statesman...