Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...employee, who requested anonymity,said, "It sounds like a great contract--we gotbenefits we've never had. I don't think anyone intheir right mind would vote against it. But what Iwant to know is, why didn't we negotiate thesebenefits a long time...
...usually] negotiate a second contract withthe Marriott people. They have indicated to methat they may not accept the Harvard contract,"Bozzotto said. "But we are going to let theBusiness School people know that there is notgoing to be a second class of dining hall workershere. We will strike if we have...
...Natalya just had an opinion on everything--you know, `I think this, or I think that,'" Rinella said. "She's a very spirited young woman...
Critics generally agree that Naipaul's fortunes are on a permanent foundation. Irving Howe, no pushover, says, "There can hardly be a writer alive who surpasses him." Alfred Kazin calls Naipaul the "most compelling master of social truth that I know." The writer himself is not overly responsive to praise. He claims to dislike interviews and awards and describes himself simply as a "maker of books." Though England is his base and spiritual home, he prefers the convenience and anonymity of large hotels and jetliners where, 30,000 ft. above the chaos, he can clasp a pillow to his stomach...
...people who worked on this movie are not without a certain sophistication. They know that the heroic, tragic and farcical modes, all of which they briefly lurch toward in the course of the film, are not really appropriate to their story. They are also aware of how rapidly the world has spun since their protagonist was burning pianos and churning up teenage hormones. Accelerated change of that sort produces the kind of broad fundamental irony that moviemakers who take themselves seriously always love. How dumb we were. And so recently. How easy it is to encourage the audience to join...