Word: expression
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Black Muslim's "dangerous" anti-Semitism and said he and the minister were "poles apart." Before Farrakhan was to speak this week in Madison Square Garden, a coalition of the city's black and Jewish leaders denounced him. Said black City Clerk David Dinkins: "When (Farrakhan's) opinions express racial prejudice and bigotry, we cannot be silent, for in this climate, silence can often suggest assent...
Across the country, meanwhile, a firm called Railfone will install telephones on Amtrak's Metroliner express between Washington and New York City in January. Anticipated charge for all calls: $4.75 for the first three minutes and $1 a minute thereafter. Amtrak expects the busy executives who ride the train to turn the service into a moneymaker quickly...
Although teachers are provided with handbooks, they must plan their own lessons. "The benefit of the program is being able to express creativity," Anne Beal '87 said...
...publications, notably the satirical weekly Le Canard Enchaine, occasionally have sniffed out scandal in high office, serious French journalism, by and large, favors analysis and ideological commentary over investigative digging. This time, however, periodicals ranging from the left-of-center daily Le Monde to the conservative newsweekly L'Express joined Le Canard Enchaine in unraveling, bit by bit, what has been dubbed Underwatergate...
...steeples and trees felled, cars bashed by limbs, roadways flooded, some roofs dislodged, boardwalks buckled, beaches undermined and eroded, small boats sunk, windows smashed. Bad enough, perhaps, but when contrasted with what had been expected, whew! again. New York City Mayor Edward Koch found his typically unique words to express the relief felt by almost everybody: "We scared the hell out of the hurricane, and it went elsewhere...