Word: expressiveness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...That all members of the Board of Overseers have an opportunity to express their individual views with respect to investment policy, including divestment, at an early meeting of the Board, preferably the April 10 meeting. Members of the Corporation will be invited to hear this expression of views, in addition to the President and Treasurer, who attend meetings as members of the Board of overseers. It is recommended that the Board not try to formulate a position at that meeting...
...suspicious evidence has already turned up: apparently the first indication of cocaine use by a commercial pilot who was involved in a fatal crash. The National Transportation Safety Board said it discovered traces of the drug in the blood and urine of Pilot Steve Silver, whose Continental Express commuter plane crashed in January near Durango, Colo., killing nine...
...once America figures out how Northeastern Gore is, his ability to deliver the crucial South will be severely diminished. Jackson could deliver the South, but unfortunately, he would send much of the country Federal Express to the GOP. America doesn't yet have the chutzpah to vote for a Black preacher with no political experience...
...Union generally agree that his policies of economic restructuring (perestroika) and political openness (glasnost) are feeding the centrifugal forces of nationalism. "If Gorbachev wants to do something, he has to carry out perestroika," says French Sovietologist Helene Carrere d'Encausse. "But he can't do it without letting people express themselves. This leaves the door open to air all their frustrations, and the easiest ones to express are national frustrations...
...impersonation of gravitas. Brute power is only one of the cruder types, and it is sometimes subdued by other forms: a moral gravitas, for example. Martin Luther King Jr. brought his gravitas to bear against men of power who were morally vacant. Gravitas may be aggression, but it may express itself otherwise, as something withheld, as a dignity and forbearance...