Word: far-flung
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...world," says Buck. "Now I want to exalt the Lord. I want to stay a businessman, but I want people to know that God changes lives. You don't drop out of the world because you become a Christian." Buck now spends his free time preaching to far-flung church and business groups...
...far-flung lobbyists were well-briefed and coordinated. Preparations began just after the House turned down deregulation and passed the Carter energy bill before the summer recess. Recalled Carl Suchocki of the Natural Gas Supply Committee: "Word went out: we have to get out to the grass roots, and we have one month to do it." Added Foster: "Few of our people went to the beach in August. They stayed at their desks through the smog and the heat...
...maintain these far-flung business operations without any sophisticated communications network, the companies employed "agents." bagmen who, for exorbitant fees, greased palms and took advantage of contacts. Kermit Roosevelt, Teddy's grandson who engineerred a coup for the benefit of the present Shah of Iran, was merely following the example set 65 years ago by Sir Basil Zaharoff. The arms market flourished in this past era, when the industrialized nations traded amongst each other as well as exploiting the undeveloped countries. By "gingering up" a few Chilean generals or instigating a local war between Arab chieftains, Zaharoff claimed to have...
...Ayer Hitam to close down a U.S. consulate that has outlived the prosperity of the American-owned rubber plantations that once flourished there. The Viet Nam War is over. In literary time, it is post-Heart of Darkness and The Ugly American. The real action now takes place in far-flung Hiltons, where multinational businessmen confer in the Esperanto of global trade...
BELLE ÉPOQUE. While most of the designers were evoking images of the celluloid past or far-flung lands, Marc Bohan for the House of Dior chose his motifs from a nearer era-France's Belle Epoque. Inspired by the writings of Colette, his clothes are flirtatious and feminine. Here there are no robes that conceal the figure, no heavy padding-only effervescent clothes that capture the spirit of Gigi, the gay gamine immortalized by Maurice Chevalier's Thank Heaven for Little Girls...