Word: chatted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...locale is what Lands' End is all about. The company cultivates a shamelessly folksy image, urging readers of its magazine ads to call a "friendly southern Wisconsin voice." Lands' End operators, many of whom are housewives or students from the surrounding farm country, are famous for their willingness to chat, even about the weather. "We're trying to build a relationship with a customer, not consummate a sale," says President Richard Anderson...
...sorting out takes time and patience. An interview with a local bureaucrat seems to support Naipaul's contention that "everybody is interesting for an hour, but few people can last more than two." After much difficulty, he has arranged a chat with two Tamil radicals. The pair are escorted to the writer's hotel room by two plainclothesmen. The luxurious Taj Coromandel is overrun by an international gathering of leather-goods manufacturers, and for all anyone can tell, Naipaul and his group could have just concluded an agreement to turn sacred cows into discount luggage. His reaction to the interview...
...President Daniel Ortega and Miguel Cardinal Obando y Bravo sat down for a 90-minute chat last week, the two men, frequent antagonists in the past, were uncommonly genial. So when Ortega requested that Obando go to Washington and ask the Bush Administration for direct talks between the two countries, the Cardinal promised to think it over...
Even now, Bok prefers dealing quietly with individuals to mixing and mingling in large gatherings. While campus groups complain about Bok's inaccessibility, he is known for stopping to chat one-on-one with students he meets in the Yard, amiably questioning them about their experiences at Harvard...
...Rollwagen tells it, the decision turned on a chat he and Cray had four weeks ago in Colorado Springs. "I said to him, 'It's not working, is it, Seymour? It isn't feeling right.' " The two discussed options short of a total split, but Cray kept pressing. "It's almost like he forced me to turn the page," says Rollwagen. "He said, 'Isn't there ((an option)) that would be even cleaner? Let's get on to that one.' It just became very clear to the two of us that this was the right thing...