Word: apartement
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have recently been published, generally by journalists, one becomes even more grateful for the publication of Harvard Diary. Michael Kinsley's recently published compilation of his articles, The Curse of the Giant Muffins, marks the effort of one clever and clear thinker who has devoted his mind to picking apart the foibles of various well-known individuals...
...from other nations, the Japanese have an almost tribal sense of their own identity. "Japan has never had a foreign policy," observes John David Morley, an expert on Japan and author of Pictures from the Water Trade. "It has had wars, it has colonized parts of Asia, but apart from that its experience in dealing with other nations is still very primitive." Nor have many older Japanese been free of an attitude -- some claim an almost racist conviction -- that Japan's uniqueness makes it impossible for others to copy its success...
...however, the two men felt they had to blow the whistle on their employer: they told federal investigators that Ashland Oil had paid bribes to Middle Eastern government officials to obtain crude supplies. Before long, McKay and Williams were fired, and their comfortable lives began to come apart. Unable to find jobs in the industry, they filed suit in 1984 against Ashland, charging that they were unfairly dismissed merely for telling the truth...
There is something so personal about this summit, the President explains. Systems may be brutish, bureaucrats may fail. But men can sometimes transcend all that, transcend even the forces of history that seem destined to keep them apart. The idea that he would ever go to Moscow was only a dim possibility until he met Gorbachev. Then it sprang to life in an intimate inkling...
...news shows as well) transplanted to Moscow for much of the week, summit news squeezed out all but the briefest wrap-up of other news. Monday night's CBS Evening News, incredibly, mentioned not a single non-summit-related story. It was, to be sure, a slow news week apart from superpower summitry. But the blanket coverage raised questions of TV overkill. With little substantive news expected from the summit, and the network news divisions already facing severe budget constraints, some wondered whether the extensive TV effort was journalistically warranted...