Word: tempered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Kremlin leaders for nearly 20 years. Among them were scholarly, multilingual Andrei Alexandrov-Agentov, a foreign policy adviser since 1966, and rubicund Leonid Zamyatin, head of the Soviet Central Committee's international information department since 1978. Zamyatin in particular appeared to confirm that there was a conscious attempt to temper the General Secretary's ebullience. He soon quoted his boss to the effect that "there is no Gorbachev style. Therefore, there can be no new style of leadership...
...France, a rare honor for a young provincial Soviet administrator. As a Politburo member, he led Soviet delegations to Canada in 1983 and Britain in 1984 and submitted to sometimes hostile questioning by members of the Parliaments of both countries. Gorbachev on those occasions showed flashes of a quick temper. When a British Tory asked him about religious freedom in the U.S.S.R., Gorbachev testily replied, "You persecute entire communities . . . You govern your society. You leave us to govern ours." But on the whole he impressed his hosts as one Soviet official who could discuss touchy issues in a businesslike fashion...
...hostages held in Iran ("They shouldn't have been there six days, let alone six months") was thrown back at him as the world watched. He was chastened. But one of Reagan's strengths is that at such moments, he has an extraordinary control of his temper. Common sense crowds out darker impulses, and after eating crow for half an hour on prime time, the President -- and the country -- mercifully moved on. Now, like his predecessor, Reagan is learning that moving the fleet and grimacing on television have little effect on a fanatic...
...twice fired. Will I be tagged a troublemaker? Why does my secretary resent picking up my laundry and balancing my checkbook? My boss throws temper tantrums. What do I do? Well, you could ask Andy. In a column published each Wednesday in the San Jose Mercury News, Andrew Grove, president of Intel, a semiconductor manufacturer, answers questions about the woes of the workplace. Since last October, Grove has been dealing with two letters a week in the column "High Output Management," which has been modeled after "Dear Abby...
...grandchild; did you hear the delightful joke he made about Marx and the British Museum? Yes, but one has to watch the silver; just because he is educated and urbane does not mean he is soft. Clearly, he is out to kill Star Wars. And he does have a temper. And so on. Only after long bouts of fruitless peering does one realize, again, that to scrutinize a Soviet leader is to scrutinize the Soviet state, and the state is a monument to impermeability...