Word: expression
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...otherwise cleaning up after Weinberger's seemingly casual references to such explosive issues as reviving plans for the neutron bomb, linking arms control to Soviet policy in Poland or selling arms to China. While Weinberger has not really trespassed on Haig's turf, he has not hesitated to express views that differ from those of the Secretary of State. He opposed, for example, Haig's effort to set a deadline for arms talks with the U.S.S.R. Yet once the President has spoken, Weinberger abides by the decision. Cap the Knife, with his reverence for good management, is a consummate team...
...foray shows that few companies or industries are immune to merger fever. As a result, the ranking of top U.S. firms has become almost as volatile as Billboard magazine's Hot 100 pop record chart. The strategies behind the mergers are as varied as the deals themselves. American Express, for example, grabbed the Shearson Loeb Rhoades brokerage house on its way to becoming a one-stop financial service center. To enhance its power on grocery shelves, Nabisco merged with Standard Brands...
SUPERTRAIN (NBC, daily, 7 a.m.-2 a.m.) Last show of the series. The Supertrain is commandeered by Freddie, a brilliant but unstable technician who rearranges the schedule, fires the porters, loses most of his passengers and nearly derails the crack RCA Express. Freddie: Fred Silverman. Executive discretion is advised...
...that what the coalition is calling for is also a civil liberties concern. This is a situation where you have the First Amendment competing against itself." The A.C.L.U.'s position, as Reitman puts it, is that the coalition's member groups "have a perfectly legal right to express their views and to boycott," just as supporters of United Farm Workers Leader Cesar Chavez had a right to boycott California lettuce. The area of uncertainty, for the A.C.L.U. and for others, is that this particular boycott impinges uncertainly on the Constitution's guarantee of free speech...
...unrestrained a tragic sense? To compare him with Michelangelo is not, in the end, impertinent, for Rodin was one of the last artists to live and work in the belief that making sculpture-despite the potboilers and failures in his output-was a moral act, that it could express one's whole sense of being in the world, and, by uttering it, make the self exemplary...