Word: damns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...summit in London, the leaders of the world's major industrial democracies fretted over the dangerous state of U.S.Soviet relations. At one point, Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau urged Reagan, "For heaven's sake, Ron, do a bit more." Reagan removed his eyeglasses and shot back, "Damn it, Pierre, what do you want me to do? We'll go sit with empty chairs to get those guys back to the table." Early last week legislators in Reagan's own party implored him to seek a summit with Chernenko-without a formal agenda. Said Senate Majority...
...courses for a certain number of years. One social scientist says there is a rumor that "the senior faculty in History take pride in not knowing the names of the junior faculty members." In the Government Department, "the majority of the tenured faculty members just don't give a damn about the junior faculty members. They feel life was created for them, at least at Harvard," says another social scientist...
...considerate and has a unique way of nurturing what is best in people, and I've never seen him lose his temper with an actor. Actors can be very bitchy people--I've gotten that way myself, it's so easy to get horribly temperamental--and you feel so damn guilty at the end of it because he's so good-hearted...
Continental could still see some bright spots last week. With its solvency at least temporarily assured, customers started to return their money. "Some were a bit sheepish that they were stampeded by a rumor," one bank executive noted. "We don't blame them, but they damn near did us in." Other depositors, however, seemed determined to stay away. Said one wealthy Chicagoan, who shifted the more than $1 million in his children's trust fund to First Chicago: "The worst four-letter word in banking is risk, and Continental took too many of them...
Figueron said he originally thought of organizing the club while whistling a Linda Rondstadt tune in the grille. Listening to the sound resound off the walls, Figueroa said he thought. "Damn, this would be a great place for a jazz club...