Word: daniels
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hints of Sandinista military changes came as U.S. Democratic Congressmen were showing signs of regret for their decision three weeks ago to refuse $14 million to the contras this year, even when the money was labeled humanitarian relief. The biggest factor in changing congressional minds was Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega Saavedra's tete-a-tete in Moscow on April 29 with Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev. Ortega continued his 13-day trip through the East bloc last week, meeting, among others, Polish Prime Minister General Wojciech Jaruzelski...
...their abhorrence of the work ethic." Hall told the legislators she had not really co-authored the book, only "edited" it. As an editor, she claimed, "you don't need to understand what you're reading." An Administration official said that Hall was recommended by retired Lieut. General Daniel Graham, whose book on Star Wars she also helped edit. As for her future, another staffer mused that the question is not "should we get rid of her, but when...
Wider and plusher than standard airline seats, TWA's lounger has a little padded footrest and reclines up to 40 degrees. Says its developer, TWA Industrial Designer Daniel Sauter: "It's a kind of mixture between a barber seat and a La-Z-Boy chair." The design redistributes weight to the legs and back, putting less of it on the buttocks. TWA expects that its lounger will keep it flying high in transatlantic business, where it now leads all other airlines. Says Jesse Liebman, a TWA vice president: "Passengers vote with their feet." With other parts of their anatomy...
...novel follows the lives of five Harvard men from their freshman registration in 1954 to 1983, the year of their 25th reunion. Brooklyn-born Segal is a member of this class of '58, although the closest the book gets to an artist-celebrity is Daniel Rossi, a California kid whose reputation as one of the world's great pianists is established faster than one can say veritas...
...have had a point when he said, "Give a member of Congress a junket and a mimeograph machine, and he thinks he is Secretary of State." When Harkin and his fellow freshman Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts got home brandishing a cease-fire proposal from Nicaragua's President Daniel Ortega Saavedra, the venerable Republican Barry Goldwater said they both ought to be reprimanded for interfering in the President's business...