Word: tactfulness
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...avoid a Government gridlock that is too near to dismiss. "There is a crisis," says Jim Jones. "Reagan has got to define that crisis for the nation." Reagan spent most of the campaign painting a picture of national wellbeing, so these next weeks will require a large measure of tact and political suppleness. If he succeeds, he will have mastered Mr. Madison's system of checks and balances...
Propose "deep cuts" that you know the Soviets will reject out of hand--this has been the tact pursued by Administration negotiators wary of the utility of arms control and confident that the only way to meet the "threat" is to build more weapons. This is the attitude that colored the U.S. zero-zero proposal on short-range missiles in Europe, and which helped scotch the reasonable "walk-in-the-woods" compromise under which NATO deployments would be scaled back for a reduction of Soviet SS-20s. It is the same attitude which, in the strategic talks, asks Moscow...
...Canada, John Paul mixes strong words and tact...
YURI ANDROPOV IS DEAD and the Reagan Administration seems to think it has won a gunfight. The tact-less, admonitory lone of the Reagan letter of condolence and the Secretary of State's call for "new contacts" have the air of a gunfighter dictating terms; one would imagine the president holding his pistol to the hotline while saying, "Now get up slow...
...still capable of shame must feel guilty of a stunning level of shiftlessness: he is letting another man win his bets for him (Barich admits to occasional losses but does not dwell on them), and even catch and eat his fish. As in any such gigolo-gigolee relationship, exquisite tact is required of the paid performer...