Word: appealling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Micro/Vest was more than willing to fight. In last week's first round, the jury awarded Micro/Vest the ComputerLand stock it sought, which may be worth $400 million. It also ordered Millard, who plans to appeal the ruling, to pay Micro/Vest $125 million in punitive damages for trying to renege on his debt...
...formal accession, Gorbachev and the managers of his image had launched a campaign to present him as someone with whom the West could do business. Horelick predicts that Gorbachev will be a "smooth, persuasive purveyor of antihistamines for our nuclear allergies," that is, proposals in arms control that will appeal to nervous Europeans and perhaps nervous Americans too, while not compromising the objectives of Soviet policy...
Roth, now suspended from all clerical duties, will appeal to a regional Lutheran convention in June, but that body is expected to confirm the defrocking. This week he faces another appearance in secular court. Meanwhile, Lutheran investigations have begun of parishioners' complaints against two other D.M.S. clergy: William Rex Jr. of Trafford and Daniel Solberg of Allison Park. D.M.S. backers are considering further church protests...
...brains, the green, yellow-fringed leaf spears, the oversize blue foxgloves--look forward to Paul Klee. But the black woman with her glittering eyes, wreathed in obedient snakes, has to be the purest evocation of the colonial sublime in French painting--like a great Gauguin without the sex appeal. It makes one realize what distances separate the routine from the inspired, even among "innocent" visionaries...
...Iran, as it seemed to do in the beginning. That is cold comfort for the citizens of Basra, who remain on the firing line and have learned to be skeptical of good news. For a few hours last week, they were cheered when Iran suspended the shelling following an appeal by U.N. Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar to stop attacks on civilian targets. A day later the heavy guns began to rumble again...