Word: impromptue
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...President's sleek black ZIL limousine roared down the center lane of Kutuzovsky Prospekt to the Kremlin every morning at 8 o'clock. Now it usually arrives after 10. Brezhnev takes more naps than he once did, and more vacations. His attention span is shorter. Instead of the impromptu policy discussions he used to thrive on, he greets important political visitors with remarks and toasts read from papers prepared for him. Much of his old zest has vanished...
...WORLD). White House Press Secretary Jody Powell also had little to say about foreign policy. When reporters badgered him, he insisted that he was "not getting involved in daily temperature taking about Iran." He added: "I have nothing to say about Cambodia." Since Carter has often made damaging impromptu remarks about events abroad, his taciturnity was perhaps understandable. Yet in a worrisome week, the President gave the appearance of ducking the issues. Certainly, he was not signaling any new American resolution to friends and foes abroad or to the forces on Capitol Hill that are concerned about his overseas policies...
...were greeted by smiles when they appeared in T'ien An Men Square or at the "democracy wall" poster site at the intersection of Chang An Avenue and Hsi Tan Street. They were quickly surrounded by eager citizens who besieged them for calling cards and engaged them in impromptu political seminars. Says Fraser: "It was electric. You went down to look at the posters, and suddenly you found yourself talking to a crowd of a thousand people...
Late of the week, the government announced that in the interests of "stability and unity," the big rallies and informal seminars would no longer take place. Privately, though, Chinese officials indicated that they were happy with the impromptu dialogue between citizens and correspondents and felt that for could not be a return to the isolation of old. Fraser, for one, agrees...
...said he might ask for a state tax increase if food and drugs were exempted from the sales tax; his wife is an ardent feminist who uses her maiden name, and he is a competent jazz saxophonist. He looks like a Kennedy and even breaks his campaigning for impromptu touch football games. Along with Alabama's James, 44, Florida's Graham, 42, and South Carolina's Richard Riley, 45, he is part of a drove of Democrats who have infused fresh blood into Southern Governors' mansions and who may some day?it has happened before?be important on the national...