Word: impressment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Shattack cited Harvard backs lan Hardington, Frank DiFalen, Julian Ahr and Murty Sehelli for turning in "outstanding performances," and he added that goalie Phil Coogan continues to impress...
...Sculley is getting good reviews from the Apple dealers he has been trying to impress. They say he has boosted morale and given the company some badly needed direction. Said Mark Aschauer, president of Mountain View Mission Computer in California: "Before Sculley arrived, Apple never listened to its dealers. The managers used to have egos running in front of themselves...
Snobbery is always preposterous but also sometimes useful. "The use of forks at table," observes the English writer Jasper Griffin, "seemed to our Tudor ancestors the height of affectation, so, the first to follow that Italian custom doubtless did so, in large part, to impress their neighbors with their sophistication. Evolution itself is a process of rising above one's origins and one's station." The writer Sébastien Chamfort located what is surely the ultimate snob, a nameless French gentleman: "A fanatical social climber, observing that all round the Palace of Versailles it stank of urine...
...positions in Geneva, since the U.S. refuses to count the British and French nuclear forces in the INF talks and since the Soviets are making their offer contingent upon the cancellation of all new Pershing II and cruise missile deployment. Moscow's central purpose is almost surely to impress West Europeans with its flexibility and thus to encourage opposition to the installation of those new American missiles, due to start later this year...
...November 1984 than after that. Why? Because Reagan is looking formidable, perhaps unbeatable in next year's election. Therefore the Kremlin is more likely to negotiate an agreement that suits its own purposes some time during the next 15 months, while Reagan is a candidate who needs to impress the voters with his statesmanship, rather than later, when he is a second-term President with the election safely behind him. There is talk of "the 1972 precedent": Richard Nixon was able to go to a summit in Moscow and sign the SALT I accords in an election year, when...