Word: unyieldingness
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We take it for granted that what is good and works for us can be the same for others. Perhaps But we must not forget that others have to work within constraints placed upon them by millenia-old traditions--in all their enchanting beauty and painful inertia--and by often...
In Bonn, Kvitsinsky came across as outspoken, unyielding and yet not dogmatic. "He always takes the Soviet line, but he doesn't talk ideology," one fellow diplomat observes. "After a while you even get to like him." That will not make him easy to deal with. Warns a Soviet...
When he formed his government earlier this month, Prime Minister Garret FitzGerald was bitterly critical of the British government. Reason: Whitehall's unyielding approach to the members of the Irish Republican Army who were conducting hunger strikes in the Maze Prison near Belfast. But last week FitzGerald declared he...
Perhaps the greatest threat to the new government lies in Northern Ireland. I.R.A. Militants Kieran Doherty and Paddy Agnew, both 26, won seats to the Dáil in last month's election, but neither has been able to attend. They are prisoners in the H-block of Ulster...
"I've never backed away from a fight," says Donald Regan, 62, World War II Marine and former chairman of Merrill Lynch & Co., largest brokerage firm in the country. In the past several months, the Treasury Secretary has remained true to his word. As point man in the Administration...