Word: bernards
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...party rule now seems all but inevitable. Yet Mugabe, who describes himself as a Marxist, has offered intriguing hints that he will not create a Communist-style state. Finance Minister Bernard Chidzero has imposed a tough new budget that includes not only higher taxes for upper-bracket incomes, but also an unprecedented "lower level" tax of 2% on all incomes above $100 a month. The pragmatic measures are aimed at reducing Zimbabwe's budget deficit, which was more than $600 million last year...
Democrat Washington, who narrowly defeated Republican Bernard Epton in April in a contest marred by violence and charges of racism called his victory part of a "continuum" of increasing Black control in America's cities...
...Fears' The Hurting can be levelled at Power, Corruption, and Lies--that it is occasionally boring, soupy, and offers little that is new--there is a tangible difference between New Order and your bargain basement synth outfit. New Order exudes an intelligence and depth that gives the sense that Bernard Albrecht and crew are in total control of their disco experiment. But where does that leave the listener...
...most striking feature of this system of bargaining is the huge amount of time it consumes. "They can carry on negotiations until you're just plain tired of it," says Bernard Appel, an executive vice president of the Radio Shack division of Tandy Corp., which annually does more than $200 million worth of business with Japan. In Australia, Attorney Paul Davis offers clients a simple rule of thumb: allow five times as long as usual when doing business in Japan...
...bromides: "Punctuality is the thief of time"; "Old enough to know worse." But he could be as pontifical as the next prince: "A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it"; "One's real life is often the life that one does not lead." George Bernard Shaw saw the aphorism as the new home for political slogans: "All great truths begin as blasphemies." His contemporary G.K. Chesterton was the last master of the paradox: "Silence is the unbearable repartee"; "A figure of speech can often get into a crack too small for a definition"; "Tradition...