Word: impressively
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Just in case the Harvard Law grad does decide to toss his hat into the ring, here are a few Duke facts you can impress your friends with at cocktail parties...
...this club [Harvard] is pretty good. They impress me as a team with a lot of character. We gave them all they could handle tonight, and they handled it," he said...
That unassuming style reflects a person with a very precise sense of herself and her limits. Aquino recognizes the vanity of vanity. "I've reached a point in life," she says, "where it's no longer necessary to try to impress. If they like me the way I am, that's good. If they don't, that's too bad." It is that same kind of detached self-possession that enables her, in the midst of pandemonium, to remain as composed as a sermon. "A single word of anger from her or any suggestion of violence ((at Ninoy's funeral...
...least objectionable behaviors were "boring ingratiation," or trying to be funny and nice to impress others, and a mixture of distracting behaviors such as going off on tangents or overusing small talk or slang, such...
...temporary pact, which holds only through the end of the year, did not impress oil traders. After the announcement, the price of a barrel of West Texas Intermediate Crude fell from $15.19 to close the week at $15.02. OPEC must meet again in December to set 1987 production levels, and many analysts think the current agreement may collapse, perhaps sending the price of oil back below...