Word: expression
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...some 200,000 federal workers began, the Pentagon lost not a single man-hour of work. The National Zoo in Washington also remained open. But the President's press office stopped functioning, and 262 of 344 people who work for the White House went home. Outsiders trying to express an opinion on the President's action heard a recording that ended, "No one is here to answer your call...
...latest corporations to join this movement is American Express. The giant financial and travel company has begun offering a program called Expressline to the 4,000 employees at its headquarters in Manhattan. Users write their queries on special forms and mail them to an outside post office box in self-addressed, postage-paid envelopes. A personnel department worker then retypes all questions and replaces senders' names with codes, unless a questioner wishes to be known. Management promises that a reply will be made in every case within ten days by the responsible person, including the company chairman...
...American Express received 80 Expressline questions in the first eight days of the program. The most common query: could the Dec. 28 payday be moved up to Dec. 24? The company has now changed the date...
...movie about a nearly forgotten American Communist and his troubled, tempestuous wife Louise Bryant. These Reeds never pretend to be ordinary people; this Reds boasts not a single mechanical toy as a major character. Reed's life said this: Not only can you hop the express train of history, you can help steer it into a new age. With Reds Beatty says: I'm not just a movie star, a minimogul, a hot gossip item; I've got a great film in me and here...
...most part, the broadness of interpretation suits the play well, for the players express almost stereotypical characters; lawyers, doctors, philosophers, and woodchoppers; fathers, daughters, wives, husbands, brothers and sisters. The crispness of their timing pays tribute to Serban's directorial presence. The succession of escapades which entangle the various Sganarelles come alive precisely on cue. Standing out in particular are the straight-ahead dead-pan and clever mime of Thomas Derrah and the pestering complaints of Richard Grusin, both of whom have a turn in the title role...