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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...
...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
...Anil complained to Mukesh that the powers of the chairman and the managing directors at Reliance Industries had been redefined without his approval. "I sincerely hope ... we will revert to our earlier system of consultations/discussions/mutual consent," Anil wrote. Three months later, the tone of his missives had become more strident. On Oct. 25, Anil shot off a formal letter to Mukesh complaining that he had received no reply to his July e-mail and expressing "deep concern at this unhappy turn of events, and the sad reflection it represents of how we are seeking to preserve, and carry forward...