Word: chatted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...SoHo lofts West Side labyrinths, but the preoccupations are pretty much the same as those faced by romantic New Yorkers from Fred and Ginger to Kate and Cary. Smart people with sin-deep problems walk through a muggerless Central Park. Money worries are for comic relief. Cocktail-party chat is about something wittier than property values in Quogue. % You will find no filthy streets, colicky children or subway Rambos here. Instead, there is the invigorating lilt of spring in the air, and love and the Chrysler Building are just around every corner. No wonder New Yorkers love Woody Allen pictures...
...conference was "nothing more than pleasant chit chat," said Carter, a minister of a church in Beverly, Mass...
...traced to the warm and sympathetic letter sent by President Ronald Reagan to soothe ruffled Italian feelings over U.S. criticism after Abbas' release. A week later, at Reagan's invitation, Craxi joined the President in New York City for a 25- minute private talk. Said Reagan after the chat: "I'm sitting here with my very good friend." For Italians worried about the potential threat to Italo- American relations, it was a signal that Craxi had been given a tacit endorsement by the White House. Said one political observer: "The new Craxi government is a Reagan creation." Spadolini suddenly found...
Then it was the turn of French Premier Laurent Fabius. After an hour-long chat with Gorbachev, Fabius recounted that he had handed the Soviet leader a list of ten pending human rights cases that are of special interest to the Mitterrand government. Said Fabius: "We had a very live conversation." Gorbachev's response came during the speech to the National Assembly in which he called for separate nuclear arms negotiations with Britain and France. "The Soviet Union attaches the most serious importance to ensuring human rights," he declared. But he added that "it is only necessary to free this...
...with France's working class. Accompanied by French Foreign Trade Minister Edith Cresson, he journeyed to a Parisian suburb for an hour-long tour of a highly roboticized Peugeot auto factory. The Soviet leader tried out the latest model sedan, then donned protective goggles to inspect the plant and chat with workers about wages and factory conditions. So determinedly upbeat was the visit that Soviet Ambassador to France Yuli Vorontsov jokingly told a Peugeot executive, "You're getting so much free publicity out of this, you really ought to give...