Word: baseness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...posters and demonstrations left LACK STAR little doubt that Teng had a popular base of support should he choose to restructure China's leadership by seizing the premiership. When a British journalist asked a group of Peking citizens whom they would vote for as Premier if there were free elections, they quickly shouted back the answer: "Teng Hsiao-p'ing! Teng Hsiao-p'ing!" Teng himself dismissed the calls for his elevation in an oblique, Olympian answer that was worthy of Mao himself: "This is a normal thing and shows the stable situation in our country...
...reason Hannon has resisted mandatory desegregation is his fear of white flight. Whites currently are less than half of Chicago's population, down from two-thirds in 1970. Maintains Hannon: "I would not like ever to recommend anything that would further reduce the middle-class tax base of this city...
...faux pas aside, many feel that Kahn has Achilles' heels on both feet. He lacks two major instruments of bureaucratic strength: an operational staff and a power base. When he went to Carter with a request for four assistants, he was initially refused permission to hire anyone. Last week the President approved the staffing request, but told Kahn to try to nab some spare bodies from other agencies. Enormously successful in piloting the airline deregulation drive while he was head of the Civil Aeronautics Board, Kahn finds his new job much tougher because he does not have the force...
...insurance and made food products, auto parts and construction materials, among many other things?including a few cosmetics. Bergerac helped negotiate about 100 acquisitions of companies for ITT. In 1971, at the age of 39, he was promoted to the job of running all ITT European operations from a base in Brussels. By encouraging still more acquisitions and spurring the companies' internal growth, he doubled European sales during the next three years to $5 billion. He was a prime candidate to follow Geneen as head of ITT when Revson, who realized he was dying of cancer, started a search...
...white women the effect is often unnoticeable, but the exfoliation can make ashen spots show up on dark skin, unless it is covered with special emollients. The upper and lower lips of black women sometimes differ in color?slightly, but enough to require application of a special base to the relatively lighter lower lip if a lipstick is not to come out two different shades. To tap this market, Revlon three years ago brought out a line of Polished Ambers cosmetics?under the Revlon name rather than some specially invented one, as Bergerac proudly notes. He explains: "In doing...