Word: beg
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...live without sewer systems. At a crook in the road outside Socorro, the nun pulls the car over and gestures toward a field of white cotton. "The waterlines just stop there. Can you believe it? All these people want is a basic right. They shouldn't have to beg for water...
...Dicato, assistant manager of Copy Quik on Mass Ave., says the store has spent $400 on "help wanted" ads this month alone, to no avail. "We almost have to beg them to work," he says. "Students don't want to make $6 or $7 an hour anymore, so keeping them on is really hard. It's been bad for about six months. Right now, we'll hire just about anyone with half a brain...
...longer do. Visitors who wait till they're in the city's elegant subway system are also reduced to toe-tapping: "There are no public rest rooms, and there haven't been as long as I've been here," an employee declares indignantly, when a patron begins to beg. A Metro spokesman avers that rest rooms would be an invitation to "crime, vandalism and all kinds of other things you wouldn't want to discuss in mixed company...
...then Party Leader Yuri Andropov in 1983, Ligachev was named to Gorbachev's Politburo two years later. All along, Ligachev has insisted he does not oppose perestroika. In an extraordinary interview with the Paris daily Le Monde in December he said, "I know what you write about me. I beg you to understand that there is no difference between ((Gorbachev and me)); we are on the same wavelength." Observed a Western diplomat in Moscow last week: "It is quite possible to be for economic restructuring but have reservations about democratization and glasnost, especially within the party. Ligachev sees himself...
...never gave a man a better helpmate, a companion to stand beside him," Swaggart said. "I have sinned against you, and I beg your forgiveness...