Word: cordially
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even Harvard is not immune to such occurrences, as I learned first hand from an episode almost two years ago when I was a first-year student. It came unexpectedly from a white student who, under normal circumstances, was cordial to me. But during one evening of heavy drinking, he came at me, unprovoked, hurling out that much abhorred racial epithet that is a corruption of the word "Negro...
Wander into the Reeves private hotel, a tidy Victorian row house overlooking Shepherd's Bush Green, and you can easily imagine yourself in any of central * London's small, discreet hotels. The woman at the front desk will offer a cordial greeting as you check in, tell you about the facilities and invite you to have tea or a drink at the bar. Unless, of course, you are a man. In that case, you will be urged, very graciously, to leave...
...Delaware court rulings have created a more cordial climate for such deals. Before Time and Warner were allowed to consolidate, many companies feared that an agreement to merge would be tantamount to putting themselves up for sale. But the Delaware courts affirmed the right of corporate directors to pursue long-term strategies. Says Harvard law professor Reinier Kraakman of the new precedent: "This gives managers who are planning a friendly acquisition or a merger of equals a chance to go forward without losing out to a hostile acquirer...
During the next few days, however, the Sandinistas gave less cordial signals. First, they confiscated the coffee farms of three opposition members. Then, in Caracas, Nicaraguan Foreign Minister Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann charged that unnamed U.S. officials were involved "down to the marrow of their bones" in drug trafficking...
...first official trip to Washington last week: an American beauty rosebush. Accepting the memento, Bhutto told the President that the roses would serve as a reminder of her "supportive visit" to Washington. She might have added that, while the atmosphere surrounding her meetings with U.S. officials was cordial, both sides went to considerable effort to avoid the thornier aspects of their relationship...