Word: commenting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...counterparts in the company's four other U.S. regions, Anderson alleges, were handing out similar goodies. Says he: "This has been going on for so long that it became a way of life." Amoco declines to comment "because of the investigation by the SEC," but a spokesman calls Anderson "a disgruntled former employee." Responds Anderson: "I'm not disgruntled. I'm just goddam...
...John, the sage of Ossining, but she alludes regularly and playfully to his imposing presence. When her heroine, Salley Gardens (nee Potter), gets married, one of the wedding guests is J.C. Salley's father, a Columbia University professor, commits an unacknowledged theft from a Cheever short story when commenting on his older brother: "What can you do with a man like that?" Even an apparently innocent comment by Salley carries, given the name of the author, some ironic freight: "Graceful prose was never my father's strong suit...
Republicans were more outspoken. Said John Connally: "I am sure that Ayatullah Khomeini is pleased to hear Senator Kennedy's remarks." George Bush felt that the statement "might endanger the lives of the hostages" and raises "serious questions about Kennedy's judgment on foreign policy." Press comment was strongly unfavorable and occasionally stinging. The Washington Post: "It wasn't right, it wasn't responsible, and it wasn't smart." The Atlanta Constitution: "Kennedy, in a cynical campaign ploy against the incumbent President who cannot respond, has publicly sided with the Khomeini anarchy in Iran...
...mademoiselle? Great Scott, not in this case. At Scott's insistence, Sanda was paid $350,000, packed off to Paris and replaced by Swiss Marthe Keller. At least that's the reported dénouement. Neither Scott nor Sanda would talk about it. Her only comment was a brusque "No comment." No accent there...
...advised the Radcliffe students attending the RUS dinner to refocus the context in which one responds to this pernicious comment. I believe that women have and continue to face discrimination in this country. If young women entering the professions are being taken seriously, they do so as a consequence of the affirmative actions by women who put themselves on the line demanding equal opportunity and the end to sex discrimination. Without these continued efforts to combat nonconscious forms of institutional sexism, many qualified women would not hold their present positions. Political actions by both men and women are encouraging professional...