Word: appearance
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...addition, I believe it is improper for elected City officials to appear in person before city boards to promote their positions on various issues. Councillor Duehay, on a consent basis, appears before the Zoning Board and Licensing Board to express his views and opinions. This has a real potential for influencing the outcome of an administrative agency decision. If not in actuality, at the very least, the appearance of impropriety is present in the subtle influence that a person holding public office can have on board members, particularly since board members are appointed by the City Manager, who in turn...
...novel also vividly portrays the experience of a modern immigrant, dipping into the violent world of illegal documents, desperation and dark beaches in Florida. "There are national airlines flying the world that do not appear in any directory... we are refugees and mercenaries and guest workers; you watch us sleeping in airport lounges; you watch us unwrapping the last of our native foods..." Mukherjee gives us a strong sense of this under-world, and also of the Indian culture Jyoti is escaping...
Graham said she did not want her name to appear on the order because she was concerned that the racial questions underlying the Commonwealth Day matter had been buried in local politics...
...know anything about the tract's origins, but they said the case was "under investigation." Said a Western diplomat: "The language is strongly reminiscent of the Cultural Revolution." If the booklet is genuine, he added, "it tends to confirm the view that a lot of attacks that appear to be aimed at ((ousted Communist Party leader)) Zhao Ziyang are in fact directed against Deng himself...
...next victim, according to the Hong Kong press, is likely to be Zhao's political ally Liang Xiang, governor of Hainan, China's newest and most autonomous province. Liang was summoned to Beijing in late July to appear before a panel investigating allegations of corruption on the huge island in the South China Sea. In the governor's absence, Hainan is reportedly being run by a Russian-educated vice governor with close ties to Zhao's conservative, Soviet-trained rival, Premier Li Peng. Meanwhile, the ambitious plans that Deng and Zhao envisioned for Hainan's economic development are on hold...