Word: statesmanship
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...good deeds they set in motion than by ! how well they respond to crises. Jimmy Carter's conscientious conclusion of the Panama Canal treaties was overshadowed by his fumbling over the Tehran hostages. George Bush's adroit management of the Gulf War largely explains his reputation for statesmanship...
Gore has produced a labor of statesmanship, evangelism and scientific exposition. He does not so much break new ground as organize a wide variety of material and experience to state the case of environmental urgency and the need for change, for what he calls a "Global Marshall Plan." He has digested books, made friends with experts and traveled. Gore went, for example, to the Aral Sea in Central Asia -- 10 years ago the fourth largest inland sea in the world, now dead, its fishing fleets stranded surreally in dry desert. The water that once fed the Aral was diverted...
...lines of party and even ideology. On several occasions, Republicans carped at Democrats from the left and portrayed themselves as peacemakers. In October 1952, just before that year's election, Dwight Eisenhower vowed, with great fanfare, "I shall go to Korea." It was a gesture of political theater, not statesmanship...
...Massachusetts, Weld has defined statesmanship by presiding over the most sweeping reduction ever in the state government. With only four months left to close an $850 million budget gap for fiscal 1991, and facing a projected $1.8 billion shortfall next year, the Governor has calmly proposed putting everything from zoos to skating rinks into private hands, firing 6,200 of 63,000 state employees, forcing the state government's entire remaining work force to take 10 days of unpaid leave before July, shutting down 18 of 37 motor-vehicle offices, closing mental-health hospitals, abolishing the board of regents...
With an end to the military confrontation, diplomacy and statesmanship must again come to the fore, experts now say. U.S. military might cannot solve all the region's problems, they...