He is more in the mold of the Pentagon's pragmatists: Gates and Deputy Defense Secretary Gordon England.
Most of the new winemakers are pragmatists who strike a balance between these extremes.
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But Asian pragmatists should also remember that the market is bigger and faster than governments.
That said, all of these people have proved to be pragmatists when in office.
But, once again, Iran's pragmatists, embarrassed by the latest revelations, have had to duck for cover.
Both men are pragmatists who understand "they've got to make the institution run, " says a Democratic Senator.
That possibility will prompt a lively debate between radicals and pragmatists about what the party's attitude should be.
Both are pragmatists and right-of-center moderates, good qualities in the general but not so great during primary season.
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Foreign-policy making is increasingly influenced by younger pragmatists, says Karl-Theodor Freiherr zu Guttenberg, of the Christian Social Union.
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Searle Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, so liberals and pragmatists of all stripes can cue the laugh track.
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He refuses to abandon that ideal of co-existence, even though partition will be the price pragmatists pay for peace.
Leading the charge is a varied group of what I call modernist greens (others refer to them as eco-pragmatists).
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Pragmatists say it is simply a computer architecture that uses a central server but with peers that are all independent.
Once they had spread and fructified, the social ideas of the pragmatists came to seem to many Americans naive and old-fashioned.
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Pragmatists urge further flexibility, as they call it, on the unionists' side.
But lucky for the idealists, they have been able to rely on the unwavering support of the unromantic pragmatists to implement their program.
In practice, most judges are pragmatists who try to pursue an interpretative philosophy somewhere between the two extremes of Justice Scalia and Mr Dworkin.
Right now the best answer is to do business with Brazilian and Chilean pragmatists and to watch one's back in this part of the world.
Even with the possible aid of conservative pragmatists, that is far from enough to alter Iran's course over such controversial issues as its nuclear programme.
Pragmatists like the current prime minister, Baburam Bhattarai, managed to overrule party ideologues who do not want full integration and still openly oppose the deal.
Can Israel do anything about shifting politics in Egypt and the rest of the Arab world that are sidelining pragmatists who sought an accommodation with Israel?
In 1997 the National Journal, a Washington-based magazine, crowned her as the most liberal figure in the Senate: no accolade in a California now increasingly voting for pragmatists.
The conservative pragmatists had found the way to real power.
For multinational companies, China pits the strategists against the pragmatists.
It's not relevant to the problem at hand in Iraq and so it does make sense for Gates to surround himself with people who might be viewed as pragmatists.
All this highlights the perennial Republican rift between ideologues and pragmatists, and leaves the Democrats chortling at the prospect of regaining the House and even the Senate in 2000.
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Mr Obama and Mrs Clinton have remarkably few ideological differences: they are both pragmatists who believe in working through diplomacy if possible but in resorting unhesitatingly to force if necessary.
After all, both men are pragmatists who are good at cajoling their followers: witness Mr Jospin getting his Socialists to practise privatisation, whereas his conservative predecessors tended merely to preach it.
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