Word: surefootedness
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Bush's cautious, calibrated style has made for largely surefooted policy. Despite a sluggish first four months, the President has launched initiatives on difficult issues -- savings and loans, clean air, arms control -- that he might have ducked. He has kept a Democratic Congress off balance and has mollified the conservative...
Not surprisingly, each stumbled at times: Reagan by pulling his punches at the end and weakly blaming Soviet human-rights violations on "bureaucracy" rather than the Communist system or (heaven forbid!) his host; Gorbachev by taking now and then an almost contemptuous attitude toward Reagan. But like the seasoned troupers...
There is all sorts of good news about Good Morning, Vietnam, in which these two semifictional figures meet and merge. The film is the best military comedy since M*A*S*H disbanded. The reason is that it is not afraid to work the extremes. Sometimes it is on the...
The company has been more surefooted with its 13 magazines, which include Cosmopolitan, sassy bible of the single woman, and Good Housekeeping. Under the guidance of John Mack Carter, 59, GH's longtime editor, the firm has created a pair of winners, Country Living and Colonial Homes, and has just...
Moore is an old pro, author of such surefooted novels as The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne and The Luck of Ginger Coffey. But in Black Robe he slips between James Fenimore Cooper and Graham Greene, between a visually rich adventure yarn and lip service paid to human frailty and...