Word: expression
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...series of face-to-face private meetings with other foreign ministers, Gromyko was told that the world is not buying this line. Shultz had gone to Madrid specifically to express American condemnation to Gromyko in person. Their session on Thursday was described by Shultz's aides as "stormy" and "heated." The Secretary is said to have raged to State Department officials over the transatlantic telephone after the meeting that Gromyko "lies even more in private than he does in public...
...added, "So one may ask that if it were an ordinary flight of a civil aircraft. . . then why were there not taken any steps from the American side to end the gross violation of the airspace of the U.S.S.R.?" TASS said that 'leading circles" in the Soviet Union express "regret" over the loss of life, but the news agency dismissed the worldwide uproar over the attack as mere "hullabaloo...
...past statements that were too far to the left or right for comfort. Missing from Selected Works is his embarrassing 1966 admission that he was guilty of"prolonged neglect of Mao thought," as well as his 1978 remark that "if the masses feel some anger, we must let them express...
...American Express coveted IDS because of its 4,500-member sales force that doggedly peddles financial products, often door to door, to 1.3 million customers. Negotiations between American Express and Alleghany proceeded quietly for three months, but when an agreement drew near in July, word of it leaked out on Wall Street. As a result, Alleghany's stock started to shoot up, and the deal had to be concluded quickly. Only after the announcement of its proposed acquisition was American Express able to launch a complete study of IDS's operations...
What American Express learned stirred a round of second-guessing at the company's executive suites in New York City. Officials were concerned that it might be extremely expensive to adapt IDS's computer system to process the broad array of products that American Express sells, including financial-management accounts, traveler's checks and credit cards. In addition, American Express began to fear that some of its top managers would have to spend too much time integrating IDS operations into the parent company. All along, American Express was nervous about IDS's lackluster performance...