Word: enjoyable
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...face-saving gesture by a regime increasingly regarded as too sympathetic to Duvalier cronies. There was widespread outrage when it was disclosed that the council had given safe passage to Brazil to Colonel Albert Pierre, head of Baby Doc's feared political police and a man said to enjoy taking a personal role in torture. Days later, an angry mob at the Port-au-Prince airport forcibly prevented retired Duvalier Secret Police Chief Luc Desyr from boarding a flight out of the country. Meanwhile, calls for the resignation of two members of the ruling council closely associated with Baby...
...Potato skins are very popular, but some people have expressed the view that they do not suffice as a main course," Eisert notes. "People enjoy it, but some have said they would rather have chicken with a potato skin on the side or something like that...
...kind of a shock," Sullivan said. "It'squite an honor. You don't usually get these thingsthings while you're still alive to enjoy them...
Township leaders, appalled by the display of military muscle, called on the government to guarantee that the forces were supervised by experienced officers. "Obviously, give any youngster a gun," warned Michael Beea of the Alexandra Civic Association, "and he will enjoy shooting at people, particularly when he has satisfied himself that the law will be on his side." Snapped a police spokesman: "Our men are well trained and don't just patrol the streets at their own discretion...
Gorbachev is a realist who does not make grandiose promises. At a 1961 party congress, Nikita Khrushchev unveiled a program predicting that Soviet citizens by 1980 would enjoy free transport and housing, the end of manual labor and living standards that exceeded those of any capitalist country. Instead of placebos, Gorbachev's 15-year plan sets targets: industrial output and national income will double by the end of the century, and labor productivity must grow by 130%. To meet those goals, the economy is supposed to expand at a 4.7% annual rate, about twice the pace of the past decade...