Word: appealling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...theme parties and nightly entertainment, all for an average per-person price of $1,100 a week. More than 20 villages, from Punta Cana in the Dominican Republic to Phuket in Thailand, have installed personal computers for executives to toy with when far away from the office. The new appeal to companies helped increase Club Med's revenues by 17% last year, to $843 million, and profits by 8%, to $38 million. For executives who have no time to go to the beach, Trigano is working on bringing the beach to them. He is starting to build a series...
Three of the hijackers, who were among the five defendants in custody, received prison terms ranging from 15 to 30 years. Prosecutor Luigi Francesco Meloni said he probably would appeal for stiffer sentences...
Ronald Reagan is not a man given to introspection. When asked to reflect on the source of his personal appeal or his uncanny sense of the national pulse, he is likely to answer (as he does on many topics) with an anecdote. In an interview in the Oval Office last week with TIME White House Correspondents Barrett Seaman and David Beckwith, the President gave glimpses into his character and popularity by reminiscing about events in his life that helped shape his outlook...
...secret to Reagan's appeal, which is also the source of much criticism, is that he relates far more easily to the plight of individual citizens than to social problems in the abstract. "Letters from someone who has finally resorted to writing to you because they think all else has failed, and then be able to solve their problem and getting something done is, I think, one of the great rewards this job has to offer." As an actor in Hollywood, he recalls, he was shown a letter by his father from a girl who said she was dying...
...Socialist victory was largely a tribute to the charismatic Gonzalez, who has become one of the brightest stars in Europe's political firmament. Though voters no longer squeal like groupies when the graying-at-the-temples Prime Minister takes a podium, he retains magnetic appeal. "There is less emotionalism than before," says a senior foreign ministry official. "But he can still convince the man in the street." Gonzalez did that last March, when he persuaded a skeptical electorate to vote to keep Spain in NATO...