Word: expression
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...harm and good outside OPEC. Last week several U.S. oil firms reported stagnant or declining profits for the third quarter. Mobil's earnings fell 41%, to $238 million, compared with the same period last year. But low-cost fuel is producing some consumer bargains. Last week People Express Airlines, citing a decline in aviation-fuel prices, slashed fares by about one-third on five heavily traveled eastern routes...
...play with some much-needed action, but more important, it provides several of the minor characters a chance to do more than merely narrate. Whereas Fifty's friend spends the first half of the play telling us how his sister died, in the second half he is able to express how he felt about...
Goldsmith, who owns the French weekly L 'Express and an American supermarket empire, has crusaded for years urging Western journalists to study disinformation techniques. To prepare a defense for the Spiegel trial, he solicited testimony from students of Soviet actions in West Germany, Britain and the U.S., including a Czech defector, General Jan Sejna, whose public remarks were the basis for the assertions about Strauss and Spiegel. Among other potential witnesses: a Soviet bloc defector who was involved in efforts to defame Strauss, and George town University Professor Roy Godson, author of a recent book on Soviet disinformation. Goldsmith...
...signs of our drifting apart at the time when unity becomes even more important, as danger recedes and faction arises." Roosevelt suavely answers that he is "a loyal friend and ally," then cites "the mounting adverse reaction of public opinion," and urges that Churchill let "the people.. . express themselves...
...saint, nor the undercurrent of faith in the expiratory powers of self-sacrificial genius really existed in 1890. The insoluble paradox of museumgoing, which is that famous art gets blotted out by the size of its public, had not become an issue, and it was not thought "elitist" to express regrets about it. Yet one feels it matters more with Van Gogh than with flabby events like last year's Vatican show. For if there was ever an artist whose oeuvre wants to be seen carefully, whose images beg for the solitary and unharried eye to receive their energy...