Word: expression
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Beginning next fall, students who do not pass the test will take a special remedial course, Express 5, in the first semester and then a regular Expos course in the spring...
Director Howard Zieff paces the film well enough to avoid dull moments between situations. "In comedy," Zieff says, "You are recruiting some body who already has the talent and the facility of delivering. All you, as a director, have to know is what you want and how to express it...." In this case, Zieff gives Moore enough room to reveal a wide range of comic talents without turning the movie into an extended stand-up routine...
Twenty-one soldiers were killed in the latest incursion, the highest toll for a single South African military maneuver since 1976. The Johannesburg Sunday Express offered a national prayer: "Lord, spare us from victory. The year has begun with another victory in a war we are destined to lose." Botha's disengagement pleased the Reagan Administration, which has been working to effect an overall settlement in the area that would eventually lead to the removal from Angola of Cuba's 26,000 troops and advisers. In recent weeks, U.S. officials have engaged in talks with representatives of both...
American financial institutions, however, are now going national. Despite laws like the 1927 Pepper-McFadden Act, which forbids banks to set up branch offices outside their home states, moneymen are spreading out from coast to coast. New financial supermarkets such as Sears and Shearson/American Express are offering a wide variety of banking services, and traditional firms, ranging in size from San Francisco's BankAmerica (assets: $124 billion) to General Bancshares of St. Louis ($1.8 billion), are roaming far outside their old territory. Consumers are likely to reap better services and lower prices from the resulting competition...
Bush conveying U.S. condolences over Andropov's death is thus more significant than a flubbed diplomatic opportunity. It is a reminder that the United States shares the worst of the Soviet Union's faults. Bush serves to express our sympathy, and his own, for the Soviet man who most closely resembled his own repressive function. It will be a sobering scene in Moscow, for all of us, as one Big Brother steps forward to lament the other's passing...