Word: expression
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...attributes his success to lower prices, higher quality and his willingness to work long hours. To express his gratitude to the government for giving him the opportunity to launch his own business and improve his family's status, he joined the Communist Party last year. On the wall of his waiting room, he proudly displays the evidence of his success: a framed certificate of his designation by provincial authorities as a "model worker" and a carefully mounted photo of himself with hundreds of other young Chinese who attended a party meeting in Peking last summer. In the picture...
Benton also teaches executives to express themselves more effectively and to develop better attitudes toward themselves. Prior to making a presentation, Benton advises, "find out what others expect or what they want to avoid before you spill your guts." Executives must be able to see themselves as successes. Says Benton: "It may sound corny, but if you think you are getting better, you will get better...
There are people today who express wonder that figures like Thomas Jefferson and John Adams wrote a good number of personal letters every day (and made copies too) and still found time to run the country. Or even that Harry Truman regularly wrote to his wife. There are people today who receive a wedding invitation and answer with a telephone call, or forget to answer at all. There are people today who are psychologically unable to write a letter to anybody on any subject. Meanwhile, the postal system has silted up with all the debris of computerized commerce: catalogues from...
...letter of Frederick C. Moten et al (47-26), which makes frequent use of the word "racism," is, in my own opinion, itself racist. It is so because it ignores the rights of Jews to express their legitimate views, and makes an overgeneralized statement about white America...
...agree with the goals of the report, but would go about doing it differently," said Anthony A. Ball, a member of the Third World Alliance. "We've got to have a Third World Center as a support structure for all students to go and express themselves," he added...