Word: impressment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only the honeyed tongue of someone like Gary Golditch, 31, manager of the Financial Collection Agencies in Maiden, Mass., who calls himself "a diplomat." The key thing, says Golditch, is not to let the debtor hang up. Start by being polite: "I'm sorry to inconvenience you but..." Impress on the debtor his moral responsibility: "You received the merchandise you wanted, but my client has not been paid ..." Golditch calls these opening gambits a means of "captivating" the debtor. "After that, I'm sure you'd talk with me," he says, leaning back in his chair with...
...Evergreen, Colo., on New Year's Eve 1980. By then he had become infatuated with Foster after seeing Taxi Driver as many as 15 times. In the movie, a crazed cabbie, played by Robert De Niro, sets out to assassinate a presidential candidate in an attempt to impress a child prostitute, played by Foster. Hinckley so identified with the film's anti-hero that he bought an Army fatigue jacket and took to drinking peach brandy, as did De Niro's character. "I don't know what's gonna happen this year," Hinckley said...
...Argentine concession, if such it was, did not impress Thatcher. In the House of Commons, she spelled out Britain's minimal negotiating demands with her customary acerbic style. Any Falklands ceasefire, she said, "must be accompanied by a withdrawal of the Argentines to a specific timetable and in a comparatively short time. We must make it absolutely clear that the Argentines must not enter into these negotiations in the belief or on the condition that by the end of them sovereignty is ceded...
...many of the PLO and Pattullo controversies, then, seems stark. Few groups have tried harder to impress upon others the need for the tolerance than Jews or homosexuals, both groups, with long his tones of discrimination, have made impressive strides, certainly on this campus. In seeking to secure their states, both groups recently sought either directly as in the PLO instance, or indirectly, as in the GSA case--to silence their critics. Neither, it seems, has learned a fundamental lesson that groups who preach tolerance cannot be in-tolerant towards opposing views without inviting a dangerous--and intolerant backlash...
...Begun discovered that Hebrew was, in fact, approved by the ministry of education, since it was taught in a classical language program (from which Jews were excluded) at three universities Furthermore, according to Soviet law people who taught anything privately required no license whatsoever. But this research failed to impress the K.G.B. Began was arrested, tried, and sentenced to two years imprisonment in Magadan, a Siberian town not far from Alaska. Now, twelve years after he applied to emigrate, he lives in a small town near Moscow and earns his living shovelling coal, a skill be acquired in Magadan...