Word: knowingness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Knowing that Republican conservatives didn't trust him, Bush wooed them assiduously. Sometimes his obsequiousness was comical: until confronted with taped evidence, Bush denied having said Reagan's supply-side nostrums represented "voodoo economics." Sometimes it was dispiriting: Bush changed his positions on issues like abortion and the Equal Rights...
With Matador (1986) and Law of Desire (1987), Almodovar displayed his brazen assurance of style and vaulted from comic realism to soap-operatic mannerism. Matador is a contemporary vampire story: an ex-bullfighter and a woman lawyer, believing that death is the ultimate climax, impale each victim on the cold...
-- When the question comes from party leaders, he reminds them that they begged him to take over the Jackson effort, knowing he would be a unifying influence. It is unfair, he says, to disqualify him for doing what they asked.
Other West German press reports led to Joseph Gedopt, 44, managing director of an Antwerp shipping company named Cross Link Group. Last week, acting on information supplied by West German customs officials, Belgian authorities arrested Gedopt for falsifying bills of lading on a shipment of Imhausen equipment that left Germany...
On Christmas Day, 70 Africans sought -- and got -- police escorts to the Nanjing train station so they could file complaints with their respective embassies in Beijing. As they marched through the streets, the Africans rallied foreign students from campuses of other universities along the way. At the station, riot troops...