Word: syntax
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...elections, assuming they win," said Pavlov, "the easier it will be to create a free and fair election." On Aug. 4, the Sandinistas signed an accord with the democratic opposition calling for the disbanding of the contras and general elections in February 1990. On Aug. 7, in the tortured syntax that defines diplomatese, Baker said publicly the U.S. was "very pleased with the steps that Nicaragua has taken to establish a dialogue with the opposition and to move toward procedures that might permit a free and fair election...
...word crafter of the television age. But Sorensen writing for John Kennedy or, for that matter, Noonan composing soaring scripts for Reagan's second term had it easy. Bush was an infinitely greater challenge. In writing his 1988 G.O.P. Convention address, Noonan miraculously transformed the Bush of the stumbling syntax and clotted catch- phrases into a "quiet" leader sensitive enough to glimpse "a thousand points of light" but strong enough to say flatly, "Read my lips: no new taxes...