Word: interruptible
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Meese never seems harried and rarely seems to mind when staff members interrupt him. Reports TIME Correspondent Walter Isaacson, after observing Meese in action: "Every time his door opened, there was a staffer sticking his head in with a brief request. 'Sure, no problem,' Meese says over and over...
...retrieving raw materials, manufacturing goods and distributing products, and the people who do this work and prosper from it will form a powerful influence within each country fighting against any disruption of the system by political elements. It is more difficult for radicals to seize mines, bomb factories or interrupt shipping when they know their own people have an interest in keeping these activities going...
...last man, woman and child -- into attending a weekend retrospective of his work (a vicious parody of Judith Crist's Connecticut film weekends), he finds himself incessantly put upon by fans ("I just adore your movies, especially the earlier funnier ones"), groupies, unemployed actors, and other assorted morons who interrupt even his phone calls with requests for photos, autographs, jobs, charity appearances, sex, or a hearing for some stupendously bad idea for a new movie. In addition, he's trying to get his current lady (Barrault) to leave her husband for him, flirting with a Philharmonic violinist (Harper), and obsessed...
...relative steadiness in financial markets was based on a widespread belief that the fighting in the Persian Gulf would be of limited duration and would not seriously interrupt or reduce the petroleum flow. The world currently has a comfortable 2 million to 3 million bbl. per day oil-production surplus, and in the short run, other OPEC nations could make up the loss of crude exported by Iran and Iraq...
...Your honor, if we may interrupt just for a minute, we can work this out very quickly," assistant district attorney Larry Hardoon told a state court judge one morning late in July...