Word: verbalizer
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...insist that the government would continue to "oppose bourgeois liberalization." He never uttered the politically incorrect word privatize, explaining that the new shareholding system is simply a modern form of "public ownership" that "can be used both under capitalism and under socialism." But few were fooled by the verbal acrobatics. "It's a deep change," says Wang Shan, a political commentator in Beijing. "The industrial worker who used to rely on the state will be thrown into the marketplace...
Being a visionary is not the same thing as being popular. Odds are, if you're a visionary, most of your years have been a struggle to get others to see what is so apparent to you. This requires arguing people out of long-held beliefs, absorbing countless verbal assaults and clinging to your judgment while friends wonder when you'll start explaining your position to your dog. Yet with every passing day, you grow more certain that you're right...
...resists attempts to force a hearing over William Weld?s ambassador nomination (AllPolitics) ... A federal judge rules American Airlines is liable for compensatory damages because its pilots were negligent in a deadly 1995 Colombia crash (Reuters) ... U.S. Secretary of State Albright urges Israel and the PLO to end their verbal sparring and give peace a chance (Reuters) ... Christian Coalition returns to its roots (TIME Daily) ... China's Hong Kong chief can't convince Washington it's business as usual in former British colony (TIME Daily) ... Retail sales figures released Friday by the Commerce Department are good news on inflation (Money...
...Burundi. Talks to arrange power sharing between warring Tutsi and Hutu factions are faltering, economic sanctions have not cooled the fighting and the violence threatens to spill over into Tanzania. Museveni told TIME that before U.S. ambassador Michael Southwick left Kampala at the end of July, he delivered a "verbal note" warning Uganda against exercising a military option in Burundi. Says Museveni: "I ignored it." The Ugandan President has also been told by Washington to keep out of Kenya, where riots are undermining the increasingly troubled regime of Daniel arap Moi, or the U.S. would "drop him like...
...discourage physical abuse, which was once tolerated though never sanctioned, drill sergeants are forbidden to so much as touch recalcitrant recruits in an effort to get them to perform. "Stress created by physical or verbal abuse is non-productive and prohibited," says the Army's training manual. "Drill sergeants used to be able to discipline soldiers on the spot when they misbehaved," McQueen says. "But now you can't even touch them to check their ammunition...