Word: zigzagged
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Haig is sensitive to the appearance of zigzag confusion in irreconcilable statements put out by various Administration spokesmen on such issues as a trade embargo if the Soviets invade Poland or potential U.S. construction of the neutron bomb. He is pushing hard for consistency. One major concern at the NATO meeting was what Weinberger - regarded by Europeans as a loose cannon - would do and say at a gathering this week of the Atlantic Alliance's defense ministers. Said one aide: "Haig wants Weinberger to sing from the same sheet music...
...Reagan's advisers include George Shultz, Henry Kissinger and Alexander Haig, all men they admire. West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt never tried to hide his scorn for Carter's vacillating and moralizing approach to international issues. Says one Schmidt aide: "Thank God the days of the Washington zigzag are over...
...incidents from the campaign illustrate how the staff system works, and sometimes fails to work, in practice. The first is the zigzag evolution of his economic program. During the primaries, Reagan vigorously advocated cutting personal income tax rates 30% over three years, on the appealing argument that the reductions would, rather quickly, generate so much extra revenue through stimulating the economy that the risk of inflation-building deficits would be minimal. In retrospect, it now seems clear that Reagan did not really understand the implications of this position, and he came under heavy attack from opponents because he could...
...ability to lead the alliance in the current crises than the disdain that allied leaders have for Jimmy Carter. He is generally regarded as being inept and naive, and as a politician who has demonstrated his inability to set a foreign policy course, stick by it and execute it. "Zigzag" and "flipflop" have become part of the scornful lexicon of European diplomats. Among the examples most often cited: Carter's push to have the neutron warhead deployed in Western Europe, winning the support of a reluctant Helmut Schmidt, only to postpone the project indefinitely; pressuring West Germany to reflate...
...Eighty-one at Zigzag! Eighty-one at Zigzag!" The announcer, alerted by spotters, booms a coded warning over the public address system. Even before his echoing voice has died away, safety and medical personnel sprint into action. A bobsled has crashed on the Lake Placid Olympic run, the longest, fastest, most difficult and dangerous racing course of its kind in the world. Zigzag, an S turn that slams sleds at nearly 70 m.p.h. through two 60° turns in 335 ft., has claimed yet another victim...