Word: houre
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...intentions. They reported home that the U.S. "apparently has no clear or positive policy ready, either for Mexico or the rest of Spanish-speaking America." Indeed, some aides thought Carter's final decisions on several major matters might actually have to be made during the 4½-hour flight to Mexico City. Nonetheless, the broad outlines of what he will seek are known...
...meeting collapsed. Outside the White House, the Mexicans told their U.S. escorts they had been treated extremely rudely. "For half an hour, he gave us a pompous lecture," one of them said. The talks lay dead for eight months while Schlesinger spent 45 hours a week on Capitol Hill, lobbying to get his riddled energy bill through the Congress...
Negotiating sessions generally consist of a morning meeting from 9 until noon, a break for lunch, then an hour or two in the afternoon; each session opens with a pot of steaming green tea. All are conducted in English, through an interpreter supplied by the Chinese. (Japanese businessmen complain that they face a greater language barrier than Americans, since many more Chinese speak English than Japanese.) Nonetheless, it is wise for Americans to bring their own interpreter, if they can find one skilled in both the Chinese language and U.S. business terms. Misunderstandings do occur; once some Boeing negotiators, slipping...
...cults issue was thrust into harsh focus by last November's carnage at the Peoples Temple commune in Jonestown, Guyana. The most dramatic moments of the four-hour hearing came from Jackie Speier, a legislative counsel who accompanied the late Congressman Leo Ryan on his fatal visit to the Rev. Jim Jones' headquarters and survived gunshot wounds. Speier stated that there are 10 million cult members in the U.S. and warned: "The most important fact about Jonestown is, it can happen again...
...minutes before I set out for the rally, a husky young photographer joined me. Ostensibly he was assigned to take pictures for my article, but I knew that the rally would end hours after his deadline. He was, in fact, my babysitter, and I spent the next half-hour listening to him tell me about all the things he'd rather be doing on a Saturday night...