Word: hinting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...much an opposition faction as ardent advocates of perestroika eager to speed its implementation. Said Leningrad's representative Anatoli Sobchak: "I am not a member of the opposition; I am a supporter of the struggle for a normal economic and political life in our country." But there is a hint of criticism of current as well as past party leaders. President Mikhail Gorbachev, said historian Yuri Afanasyev, an elected official of the group, "is justifiably regarded as the man who launched reform. But the time has passed when he can successfully remain the leader of perestroika and the leader...
...getting their goods into Japanese stores. The L.D.P., hardly a speed demon in trade talks, will now be forced to move even more slowly, both to protect itself politically and to accommodate the strengthened voice of the protectionist J.S.P. Hiroshi Nukui of the Socialists' policymaking board gave Washington a hint of what lies ahead. "We value U.S.-Japan ties," said Nukui, "but we're not going to just follow in the U.S.'s footsteps the way the L.D.P...
...countrymen, Takako Doi is clearly different, even at first sight. At 5 ft. 6 in., she is tall for a Japanese woman. When she speaks, people hear a great deep rumble with just a hint of grit. In a land where unmarried women are considered somehow incomplete, Doi remains steadfastly single. But the leader of the Japan Socialist Party has used her difference to advantage. Says Shinobu Tabata, her mentor at Doshisha law school in Kyoto: "She was big, loud and pushy to start with. I knew from the first day she came into my office that she would make...
Like Harvard's administration and Harvard's faculty, Harvard's requirements are overwhelmingly white and male. In an administration it is annoying. In a faculty it shows a stuffiness, perhaps even prejudice, and more than a hint of the old-boys' network...
Which gives Dalton a long overdue chance to re-invent the James Bond character. In Licence to Kill, Dalton is a spy with a vendetta. His dark, brooding face displays not the faintest hint of humor. And without necessarily being more violent than his predecessors, Dalton somehow manages to appear more brutal...