Word: callings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WASHINGTON--President Bush intends to call for more stringent ethical rules on executive branch officials and recommend a 25 percent pay raise for federal judges in a sweeping ethics-in-government program to be unveiled today, administration officials said yesterday...
...East Harvard Square Neighborhood Association decided to call for compromise zoning after realizing that their chances of pushing their original petition through the council were slim, petition author Terry Crystal said in an interview last night...
...assigned to TIME's Moscow bureau. I took up residence with my family in an apartment block reserved for foreigners and set out to cover what was, despite the depressing realities of Soviet life, a fascinating story. Then, on a May morning in 1970, I received a phone call from an official in the Soviet Foreign Ministry. "Your work here is finished," he said. There were no accusations, no explanations, just "Your work here is finished," and a departure deadline...
...newfound independence has brought some unexpected problems. "There's more risk now," says Fomin, the plant director. "Before, all my mistakes were leveled out by the ministry. They were covered up. Now we must rely on our own skills and resources." Simply arranging financing or figuring out whom to call for operating permits can become a major headache. "We have great difficulty getting supplies," says Alexander Kozlov, 42, the factory's chief planner. "Everyone is in the process of change. Some old connections are broken, and new ones have not yet been established...
...Western notions about personal inviolability, couldn't understand for the life of her what business CUSTOMS had with her intimate correspondence and assorted panties and bras. She told the customs officers in some detail what she thought of them, and they, huffing dolefully, continued to read our personal papers: "Call Zhenya in the morning . . . don't forget about Yura . . . Sima . . . Sonya ; . . . Lyusya . . . In the evening -- 157-29-09 . . ." My wife didn't let up. I was bored. Why were they doing all this? After all, they didn't confiscate anything . . . Were they just trying to spoil the mood? Were they...