Word: hear
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...AMERICAN people wanted to hear that Reagan was saddling up his war horse to kick Khaddafy's rump off the globe. The press wanted the big scoop. As The Boston Globe quoted one Administration insider, reporters often run stories when supplied with unsubstantiated tips. Although inside information on national security policy may be tightly controlled, reporters must be wary of ulterior motives lurking behind leaked information...
Listeners dressed in semi-formal attire filled the 500 available seats and many more stood to hear Runcie's words. A crimson and white colorscheme pervaded decorations at the reception,which took place from 4 to 6 p.m. A brass ensembleperformed before and after the speakers, who alsoincluded Dr. Derek Brewer, Master of EmmanuelCollege (John Harvard's alma mater) and theUniversity of Cambridge; Archibald Cox '34, CarlM. Loeb University Professor Emeritus and a formerWatergate prosecutor; and Stephen Sandy, facultymember at Bennington College...
...formally proposed the bill, saying he will wait for the results from a study of people who benefit from rent-control that was independently requested by Councilor Sheila Russell. The study will provide statistics on their ages and incomes--"Especially incomes," said Russell, who cited "horror stories you hear about rich people living in rent-controlled apartments...
...horror. I saw The Amityville Horror on Times Square, and there wasn't anybody talking back at the screen. There was total silence, which is unusual for 42nd Street. It was awe. The silence you'd hear in a medieval church, I thought. That's what horror is -- the church of 42nd Street...
...Soviets can hear the American political clock ticking too: they cannot be sure the President elected in 1988 will be as willing to deal as Reagan has become or will have the enormous popularity that would enable Reagan to sell a bargain to the U.S. public. Gorbachev seems eager for an arms deal of some kind: he might suffer a heavy propaganda defeat if he refused to go to a summit, but he has vowed repeatedly not to be put off again with a smile and a handshake as he was in Geneva. In recent days the Soviets seem...