Word: impressively
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When Carazo asked the IMF to lend Costa Rica money for the third time last January, he immediately began to sell dollars on the open market in order to bolster the sinking colón and thereby impress the IMF staff negotiating in San José. The cost: $45 million. As soon as the IMF team left town, the colón dropped again. In May he sold the country's $41 million in gold reserves stored at Fort Knox to pay short-term debts, further demonstrating that his government was, as a local journalist puts it, "like...
Labor leaders have tried to impress upon the public the total unity of working people in this effort. Even AFL-CIO president Lane Kirkland, a staunch anti-communist who has eschewed all ties with the more leftist of European labor federations, would not deny reports that the American Communist Party is among Solidarity Day's sponsors. Yet, even if the march attracts a large turnout, true labor solidarity will not yet exist. In spite of the AFL-CIO support for Carter, millions of rank-and-file workers turned out for a candidate who has traditionally opposed the minimum wage, social...
...between workers and their own leadership than among workers of different unions with little common interest. Right now, there can only be solidarity in opposition to Reagan. If the American labor leadership is serious in its commitment to obtain decent wages and working conditions for all workers, it must impress the members of its unions, and all non-union workers also, that the welfare of the working poor is worth sacrificing for and that they, in their current prosperity, should not neglect their roots...
...loner who tries to shoot a presidential candidate. Hinckley wrote again and again to the unknowing Foster, the last time from Washington: "I will admit to you that the reason I'm going ahead with this attempt now is because I just cannot wait any longer to impress you." Then he took a .22-cal. revolver and wounded Reagan, Secret Service Agent Timothy McCarthy, Washington Policeman Thomas Delahanty and Press Secretary James Brady, who two weeks ago underwent a fourth major operation...
These matters may not impress Judge Pratt. Four of the six U.S. Representatives stung by Abscam made similar appeals in his court and lost. Of the six, only one, Michael Myers of Philadelphia, has been expelled from the House. Two others resigned and three lost their seats in elections. Williams believes that his case is the strongest: tapes show that he refused a bribe from FBI agents and that a bureau informant coached him to "tell anything" to the sheik. Should his appeal fail, Williams will probably resign. Expulsion, as the Senator glumly admits, would mean an unwanted "note...