Word: chews
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Once when several Air Force generals fell into disagreement over some very basic figures on aircraft costs, Weinberger ended the session and told the officials to come back when they could all argue from the same set of facts. His putdowns are soft, however. Says an aide: "He can chew people out and leave them with their egos intact better than anyone I've seen...
...strive for excellence in the classics. His immediate successors, Douglas Campbell and Michael Langham, also British, helped to make the Guthrie a kind of flagship of the U.S. regional theater movement. In recent years that image has been tarnished, but the choice of Liviu Ciulei (pronounced Leave-you Chew-lay) promises to burnish it again. A Rumanian who speaks five languages, Ciulei, 58, was trained as an architect and went on to scenic design, acting and directing in Bucharest. He did his first work in the U.S. at the Washington, D.C., Arena Stage in 1974. He is a bold innovator...
...business to find out. The subsequent coup brought to power a cocaine mafia that includes even the president Luis Garcia Meza. Informants within Bolivia report that cocaine production now has become centralized, efficient and much more tightly controlled. The losers are Indian peasants, who no longer can afford to chew coca because its price has risen astronomically. With the Bolivian mafia so pervasive and well-connected, any thought of internal drug enforcement would be preposterous...
...They have staying power. They can wait. They just grind you down, chew you up, and when the time comes they spit...
...escalating a little bit. But that can change fast. Clearly, if the Soviet Union went into Poland, it would cause enormous difficulties in terms of the new Administration's relationship with Moscow. The Soviets underestimated world opinion over Afghanistan; they bit off more than they could chew. An invasion of Poland would produce an amazing world reaction...