Word: strident
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There is one intimation of optimism about the upcoming summit: the scrimmaging is being conducted with reasonable civility on both sides. Reagan pulled no punches at the U.N. in propounding his view that the Soviet Union is still an expansionist dictatorship, but his sober rhetoric lacked the strident edge so notable during his first term. Shevardnadze, for his part, was quite diplomatic when asked if he found any encouraging aspects to Reagan's speech. "If there were no positive seeds," said the smooth Soviet as his private talk with Reagan was about to begin, "we would not have...
...Peres chose last week to square off against Sharon remains a matter of speculation. Strident attacks by Sharon against Peres' peace initiatives are nothing new. Moreover, Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir, the Likud leader who is scheduled to take over the prime ministership in October 1986, had warned that Sharon's dismissal would ensure the collapse of the government. Peres' actions led many to conclude that a government split-up was precisely what he had in mind. With his popularity rating running at a record 67.2%, Peres perhaps hoped to form a narrow-based government without Likud. But the small religious...
...choice abortion activists. They're getting smarter about their strategy. For years, they've harped on and on about a woman's right to choose, while failing to capture in any meaningful way the moral qualms so many of us have about abortion itself. So they often seemed strident, ideological and morally obtuse. They talked about abortion as if it were as morally trivial as a tooth extraction--not a profound moral choice that no woman would ever want to make if she could avoid...
...party candidates can do well enough against Ibarretxe's Basque Nationalist Party to head off a collision with Madrid. And the Socialists say they can fine-tune relations with the Basque Country without resorting to a constitutional amendment. "We are firm, but that has nothing to do with being strident," says Blanco. It's clear that the previous government's tight-lipped approach didn't make the Basque problem go away. Plenty of Spaniards worry that talking won't either...
CalPERS is adjusting. Board member Steve Westly, the Democratic state controller, urged colleagues to give their strident reform policies "an extreme makeover." They agreed to focus on executive compensation instead of more controversial issues. But Angelides plans to continue the CalPERS fight. "We won't be silenced," he says. "There's too much at stake." By Sonja Steptoe/ Los Angeles