Word: compliments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard's president, Charles Eliot, returned the compliment. Recounting the early days of the city and the University, he said "We have come to a famous town, an historic town, and, what is more, a town which is perfectly sure to be dear to English-speaking people for generations to come...
...covering politics, Mudd is considered the top broadcast reporter. He's the one guy who really covers politics in the off years, who gets around." Some CBS executives found Mudd to be smug and difficult to get along with in recent years, but they are paying a considerable compliment to his skills: CBS plans to hold him to his contract (it extends through 1980) until the day after the Nov. 4 elections...
...company bringing family and friends together via long distance. The Army commercials emphasize "join the people who've joined the Army," and the message of 7 Up is that "America is turning 7 Up." So successful has the big agency been that Competitor McCabe pays it the ultimate compliment: "Ayer is like a creative little agency...
...over burdened schools and other public services. Beyond the matter of fairness to American blacks and other minorities, the new Cuban infusion raises questions about what is fair to other refugees and immigrants. Millions of people around the world want to get into America; they pay the nation the compliment of a sometimes desperate yearning to settle here. There are now 9 million foreigners applying, and only a small percentage of them will get the chance to enter the U.S. legally...
...television commercial. But there is no doubt that Arlen also admires the ambition, talent and professionalism of these people he calls "communications era artisans." Thirty Seconds is itself a series of finely perceived, artfully arranged vignettes. So, despite the book's tone of asperity, it is no small compliment when one superior craftsman acknowledges the work of others. -R. Z. Sheppard