Word: sweeting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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George Bush gave Pakistan's Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto a sweet-smelling gift at the end of her first official trip to Washington last week: an American beauty rosebush. Accepting the memento, Bhutto told the President that the roses would serve as a reminder of her "supportive visit" to Washington. She might have added that, while the atmosphere surrounding her meetings with U.S. officials was cordial, both sides went to considerable effort to avoid the thornier aspects of their relationship...
...members branded the initiative "hostile." Rabbi Alexander M. Schindler, former president of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, said the Secretary "deserves to be commended, not criticized." Pointing out that the tougher demands had been made on the Arabs, Schindler asked, "Is it better to hear sweet nothings or honest talk about what has to be done on both sides...
...agree the words are sweet, but there are a number of significant anomalies. There is a lot of dissonance between what they say, which seems to have captured everyone's imagination in the belief that the cold war is over, and what is actually being done. For example, Mikhail Gorbachev talks about withdrawing 10,000 tanks, but Soviet tank production is very high. They're now producing about 3,000 tanks a year -- far better tanks, by the way, than anything they are talking about removing. Consider what just this one indicator means. They say, and I agree after having...
ADMINISTRATION: Donald Sweet, Alan J. Abrams, Denise Brown, Teresa A. Foster, Helga Halaki, Tosca LaBoy, Katharine K. McNevin, Barbara Milberg, Teresa D. Sedlak, Rafael Soto...
Forget about being merciful, revenge is sweet...