Word: blunts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...blunt such objections, Takuma Yamamoto, Fujitsu's chairman, announced that ICL intends to keep its current management. Fujitsu also plans to issue ICL shares on the London Stock Exchange within the next five years. Still, since the mainframe industry has become an increasingly competitive, slow- growing business, Fujitsu probably looks to ICL for something other than its capacity to simply churn out machines. Katsumi Tsuzura, an analyst for Japan's LTCB Research Institute, suggests that ICL's strongest attraction is its "established brand name in Europe...
...common knowledge that Birmingham's Shoal Creek Country Club has no black members, though the fact is not usually publicized. But last month, miffed when Birmingham politicians discussing the approaching Professional Golfers' Association championship tournament criticized his club's exclusionary practices, Hall Thompson, founder of Shoal Creek, offered a blunt defense: "We pick and choose who we want...
...followers for agreeing to associate with the ostracized Austrian, Havel plainly hoped his words would pacify his critics. He apparently saw to it that his friend Richard von Weizsacker, the West German President, also attended the festival's opening, since Von Weizsacker is widely respected in Europe for his blunt acknowledgments of Germany's blame for the Holocaust. Both leaders repeatedly emphasized that their visits were private, not official, and for added effect, they cut their stays short, leaving Austria within several hours of their arrival. Still, the visit enraged many Jews, four of whom, including American Rabbi Avi Weiss...
Mariana Rodriguez Villegas' assailants were anything but subtle. After stopping her on a Mexico City street two weeks ago, the four men held her at gunpoint and gave her a blunt message for her employer, writer Jorge Castaneda, one of the fiercest critics of President Carlos Salinas de Gortari's government: Lay off or die. Three days later, after the young secretary identified one of her menacers as a former police agent, a fifth thug threatened her life as well...
...both sort of straightforward and blunt with each other," Montalbano explains. "If I don't like something he's doing, I'll tell him. He does the same to me. We've had a bantering relationship where I don't take any of his crap and he doesn't take mine...