Word: knowingness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Observers call it a vicious cycle. Qualified Blacks are loathe to remain in Boston, knowing they will find more opportunities and lets harassment elsewhere. The Globe report, for instance of the 60 Blacks who graduated from the Harvard Business School in the last two years, only five new work in...
Sometimes they phone him, unsolicited. One morning late in March, his first call comes in before 9. "Army opportunities, Sergeant Yasenak. May I help you?" A young woman, looking for the number of the Navy recruiter. "Sure, sure, no problem." The next one, a bona fide Army prospect, is guided...
In a sense, her search-the travels, the psychic exploration-may have been to serve her craft. "Talent," says MacLaine, "is sweat and knowing yourself, and I feel that mine is increasing with the years." Dancer Chita Rivera, a friend since the 1950s, says, "Shirley has worked on
The legal answer to whether the U.S. could, in effect, launder military equipment through Israel is no. The Foreign Military Sales Act of 1968 and the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 both prohibit the transfer of arms and materiel from the recipient to a third country unless the President consents...
While his contemporaries fell in love or attached themselves to religion or politics, he stood self-consciously aloof, knowing that his teachers admired his linguistic ability and than a very small circle of friends enjoyed his contemptuous altitude toward life. With what predictable withering epigrams he had managed to dismiss...