Word: informality
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...problem with the media's misportrayal is twofold. First, it suggests an apparent controversy among scientists that by and large does not exist. Second, and perhaps more importantly, the media fails in its responsibility to inform the public clearly on an issue vital to everyone's concern...
...dithering. His growing self-confidence has been helped along, aides assert, by his well-developed personal relations with other world leaders, whom he incessantly writes and telephones. (Bush and Vice President Dan Quayle were busy until 3 o'clock the night of the Panama invasion, calling foreign leaders to inform them of the President's decision.) These contacts, aides say, have given Bush a feel for how the world will react to any particular U.S. move -- or, in other words, for what he can and cannot get away with...