Word: expression
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Ruhollah Khomeini, speaking from the balcony of his home north of Tehran and, as usual, fulminating against America. He was not the only one. In Iran last week everyone, it seemed, had it in for the U.S. Some 500 delegates from 50 countries met in the capital for the express purpose of castigating "U.S. interventions in Iran." Among them was a group of ten prominent Americans, headed by former Attorney General Ramsey Clark, who had defied a presidential ban on travel to Iran in order to attend the four-day official conference...
With a six-figure income-$65,000 in salary plus fees as a director of seven corporations (including American Express and Xerox)-Jordan lives with his wife Shirley and daughter Vickee in a comfortable three-bedroom apartment on Fifth Avenue. He is an avid tennis player and pro football fan. He travels in a chauffeured Mercury, wears Brooks Brothers suits and relishes expensive wines and cigars...
...fact is that many police do reflect and express these white attitudes. The atmosphere of hostility and cynicism is reinforced by a widespread belief among Negroes in the existence of police brutality and in a double standard of justice and protection-one for Negroes and one for whites. -The National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders...
...statement "You don't take Anderson's campaign too seriously, and he doesn't stand a chance of being elected," 59% say they agree. At the same time, only 23% of his supporters say they are strongly committed to him. No less than 55% continue to express unhappiness with a choice between Reagan and Carter as the nominees of the two major parties. And 64% say they agree with the proposition "You welcome John Anderson's decision to run as an independent, and you think it is good for the country." Much of the success...
...Your credit-card mess?" Featherless had been despondent the last time I saw him, because Visa, MasterCard and American Express had taken away his plastic money. "I've been declared a cardless person," he had said then, pouring ashes from his backyard grill on his head. "I'm a man without a card." He had the haunted look of a traveler condemned to shuttle reservationless between Marriott and Holiday Inn, with no Magic Fingers to strum his backbone...