Word: expression
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Blessed with all of these benefits, one would think they would be happy, hopeful, cheerful, and smiling. Instead, they are grim, without humor, without simple hopes or simple joys. They are "un-women" who can, without blinking, with words that outwardly have the cloak of moral rhetoric but inwardly express selfishness and auger, that they will kill their own children to get their way. Michael Pakaluk Teaching Fellow in Philosophy
...London for (pounds)998 ($1,254). "The trick," says Serge d'Adesky of Getaway Travel in Coral Gables, Fla., "is to maximize the effect of the strong dollar by purchasing a London-originated round-the-world fare and buying a Miami-London ticket on a carrier like People Express for $258. You will then have a saving of more than $500 and still have the unused Miami- London portion of your ticket left. You can't cash it in, but you can use it any time within a year...
...insulting at the time it was chosen. "A black gash of shame," Tom Carhart, a Viet Nam veteran and West Pointer, called it. Novelist James Webb (Fields of Fire), now an Assistant Secretary of Defense, wanted a white memorial, set above ground, with a flag. "A memorial should express more than grief," he says. "It should honor the service of those who died...
With no bitterness but some regret, Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, 61, the former magazine editor (L'Express), author (The American Challenge) and his country's leading technophile, stepped down last week as president of the Paris-based World Center for Computer Science and Human Resources. He resigned to protest his government's decision to use French computers rather than the Apple Macintosh in its ambitious computer-literacy program. Under the plan, which Servan-Schreiber devised in 1984, France will place computer-learning centers in 36,500 cities, towns, villages and hamlets. Yielding to pressure from France's computer industry...
...weather was unseasonably warm on the Saturday before Christmas when Goetz strolled out of his apartment. He descended into the 14th Street station of the Seventh Avenue subway line. As the No. 2 express screeched to a halt, Goetz, wearing a blue windbreaker, quickly scanned the cars, looking for a relatively empty one. According to his later statements, he took a seat across from the door through which he entered, on a long bench. Directly opposite him sat Troy Canty, 19; to Goetz's right, on a short two-seat bench, sat Darrell Cabey, 19, and James Ramseur, 19. Diagonally...