Word: expression
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...corresponding ill-treatment of Harvard. Furthermore, the reasoning processes which led him to find disparagement of Eastern Orthodox Christian traditions in a personal affront appear most strange to me. I would rather offer the above cited proverb as an explanation of the affair and use this opportunity to express gratitude to the University for its unwarranted and perennial gentility. And while speaking of ancient traditions, the following apothegm of St. Macarios of Egypt (end of 4th century) is perhaps appropriate: "A bad word makes even good men bad, but it good word makes even bad men good." Fr. Mamas Holy...
...Milton Friedman got only 5.5%, Treasury Under Secretary Sprinkel 2.5%, and Fed Vice Chairman Martin less than 1%. More than half the executives fear a return to double-digit inflation if Volcker is replaced. So bullish is Wall Street on Volcker that Charles M. Lewis, vice president of Shearson/American Express, predicts that "the day the reappointment is announced will see the Dow rise 35 points. Nobody ever made more money in the market than they made under Volcker...
...yonsei (fourth). But all the Japanese seem to agree that they are superior to other Asians. And everybody picks on the Koreans. Says U.C.L.A. Sociologist Harry Kitona: "They regard the Koreans as the Mortimer Snerds of America. They cannot learn the language, their food smells and they cannot express themselves." In a city with half a dozen major "Oriental" communities, national distinctions seem magnified, perhaps because these uneasy ethnic cousins have been thrown together as never before...
Other specialists express skepticism about the impact of Harvard's unusual correspondence with the Polish leaders. "Harvard really doesn't mean that much in Poland," says William E. Schaufele Jr., who served as the American ambassador to Poland from 1978 to 1980. "It may mean something in the broad European context, but not a lot in Poland...
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