Word: tacit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Since his Inauguration, Bush has been trying to keep intact the tacit gentlemen's agreement forged by his fuzzy call for an era of bipartisanship and high ethical standards: if everyone in power would just get along with everyone else in power, all would be well. A 51% federal salary increase would quietly take effect, the Cabinet could be swiftly and pleasantly confirmed, sleaze would disappear in a warm glow of mutual trust. If everyone would make the same rosy economic assumptions, money would be found to pay for the savings and loan cleanup just unveiled and the budget just...
...defanging the Khmer Rouge will require more. As Pol Pot's mentor Mao Zedong once said, "Power comes from the barrel of a gun," and thanks to years of Chinese-Thai assistance, with tacit American blessing, the Khmer Rouge have more guns than the two non-Communist guerrilla groups that the U.S. has been aiding directly. The CIA estimates that the Khmer Rouge have enough materiel to fight on for an additional two years against their erstwhile allies...
Kind words. Gentle words. Nothing flashy or particularly memorable. Just good, plain talk from the heart. And a departure: if George Bush signaled anything by proclaiming a "new breeze," it was a new altruism, a move away from the Reagan era's tacit approval of selfishness, an end to the glorification of greed. "Use power to help people," said the 41st President. "We are not the sum of our possessions . . . We cannot hope only to leave our children a bigger car, a bigger bank account. We must hope to give them a sense of what it means...
...include the government, Solidarity leader Lech Walesa and other groups. Jaruzelski left little doubt that his new approach to Solidarity was motivated by the realization that his only hope for revitalizing the Polish economy lay in enlisting the cooperation of the country's disaffected workers. It is also a tacit acknowledgment that both Jaruzelski's economic policies and his efforts to stifle Walesa and Solidarity have failed. When the general was asked if he would be willing to meet with Walesa, whom he interned in 1981 for eleven months, Jaruzelski replied, "Never say never." Invited to participate in a dialogue...
...Through carefully crafted plans of plunder, arson, deportation and personal assault, the Azerbaijani government officials are raping the republic; this, if not with the tacit approval, at least with the tranquil acceptance, of Soviet leadership and Soviet troops," the order read...