Word: deaf
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...managers went to Congress to beg, plead and cajole for money to rectify the problem. But their entreaties fell on deaf ears. Congress just isn't very sympathetic to the IRS's real and imagined plaints. But both sides saw eye to eye on one thing: the extent and nature of the swindles had to be secret. No one wanted to give Americans a primer on how to cheat on their taxes...
...surprisingly unassuming man for such a titan among statesmen. His round, cherubic face belied a will of steel that had launched his vast land on the most remarkable transformation of the modern age. When death came to Deng Xiaoping last week, at 92, he was nearly blind, deaf, virtually invisible and the honorary chairman of only the China Bridge Association. Yet even in his long political twilight, he still cast a shadow over the nation, at once reassuring and restricting the Chinese as they march uncertainly toward the 21st century...
...silence, they seemed to succeed. But Deng, though increasingly frail, fought back. In February 1992, sensing that the populace was exasperated by conservative austerities, he emerged from seclusion to rout his opponents. His stratagem: leading high officials on a tour of Shenzhen and Zhuhai, his prosperous economic enclaves. Nearly deaf by now, he urged Chinese to "seize the opportunity" of such go-go, free-market examples. The result was an explosion of economic growth and the elevation of "Deng Xiaoping Thought" to gospel, an ironic turn for a man who shuddered at "cults of personality." But it was the final...
...hardware. Her best-selling audio recording of her book ?It Takes a Village? received a Grammy Wednesday for the best spoken-word album. Hillary beat out Garrison Keillor and Charles Kuralt. "I was very surprised, because I didn't even know that the Grammys were given to tone-deaf people like me," Mrs. Clinton said at a news conference backstage. Up next: The Hillary World Tour...
...Jessica and I discussed options for dealing with [Lit. and Arts B-55]," says Stewart. "This was the first time since I've been here that a deaf student expressed interest in taking a music course...