Word: unyieldingness
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Reagan had been well coached on what to expect from his Kremlin rival. Gorbachev had been forceful and unyielding at his presummit meeting in Moscow two weeks before with Secretary of State George Shultz, and Shultz had passed along to Reagan a vivid description of the Kremlin leader in action...
DIED. LORNA THAYER, 85, actress immortalized by her role as an intractable waitress in the 1970 Jack Nicholson film Five Easy Pieces; in Woodland Hills, Calif. In the movie, her unyielding "No substitutions" to Nicholson's request for toast with his lunch order prompts a prickly exchange that culminates with...
In the four hours of private talks that followed, neither side budged an inch. On the American side were Shultz, McFarlane and U.S. Ambassador Arthur Hartman. Sitting with Gorbachev were Shevardnadze and Soviet Ambassador to Washington Anatoli Dobrynin. The meeting got straight to business, but it quickly became apparent that...
A part from his meeting with the Shultz team, Gorbachev has been keeping a low presummit profile. He made only obligatory public appearances at last week's celebrations of the 68th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution, reviewing the traditional parade of Soviet military might from atop the Lenin Mausoleum in...
Both sides last week seemed to be settling in for a long strike. The company has perhaps $62 million in cash on hand, $100 million worth of steel in stock and no reason to settle quickly. Meanwhile, those workers who will not be receiving unemployment compensation will collect an average...