Word: englishness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Leary said she hoped the conferences will berevolutionary in presenting women's issues andnoted that published documentation of theconfernces has been planned. The first conferencewill end Saturday with a lecture by CatharineStimpson, dean of the Graduate School andprofessor of English at Rutgers University,entitled "On Feminist Scholarship," followed by apanel discussion. The second conference,"Restructuring for Reality: An In-Depth Look atSelected Issues," will be held March 2-4 and willfocus on health, family and work. The finalconference, "Meeting the Challenge: Women asLeaders," is planned...
...Crimson started off strong with wins in the evened-numbered matches. Senior Doug Cohen started off the rout with a 15-3, 15-7, 15-8 blasting of Scott English, while teammate and number-six player Polsky burned Geoff Strawbridge...
...message." Poke. A button away, he barks in German, "Cease offers. It is 400 million locked up for the duration." Poke. In French, he issues a command for his son Ian, 31, in Paris: "Call him at the restaurant. Tell him to get on the Concorde." Poke. Now, in English, he asks another son Kevin, 29, a workaholic like his father and heir apparent to the empire, "How is the market...
Whether the Brits love Maxwell back is debatable, but certainly a favorite English sport is watching the "bouncing Czech." The business community is both appalled by Maxwell's publicity-mad megalomania and envious of his fiscal ingenuity. Just about everybody is curious about him. Moments after being introduced to Maxwell, Prince Charles turned to one of the publisher's staffers and asked, "But what is he like to work...
...diction standards will not relax. For 56 years the carefully pronounced speech heard on the World Service has been the ultimate model for listeners learning English as a second language. The familiar opener for Radio Newsreel -- a brassy rendition of Imperial Echoes, with its resonance of a colonial past -- is gone and may not be missed. But news programs will still be introduced with a revered sound: the bouncy tune of the Irish song Lilliburlero and the muffled chimes...