Word: let
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...call "Monsieur." In Paris the older generation -- not the younger -- can be so unfriendly that on Sunday at the big church of St. Philippe du Roule, one can witness a scene of uncommon standoffishness, even for Paris: at the point in the Mass when the priest says, "Now let us offer each other a sign of peace," nobody moves...
...would be "Why not?" I think it's helpful to the advertisers. They're putting their money into a program to get you to buy their products. If putting money into that program is going to cost them money instead of make them money, it seems only fair to let the advertiser know this...
...think so. If I go too far, number one, the networks will let me have it, and you better bet your bottom dollar they can. Number two -- more critical -- my supporters will back off. They'll no longer support me. And they shouldn't, and I hope they won't. But I don't think they're ever going to have to make that decision...
Other vengeful visions proved illusory. When units of the 38th Army, a contingent normally based in Baoding, rolled into the city three days after the Tiananmen bloodletting, residents cheered them on, hoping they would drive out the hated 27th. "Let it be blood for blood!" shouted bystanders. But the 38th Army supported the 27th and martial rule...
...year after he first sent the House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct sniffing along a well-laid trail of charges against Wright, the Georgia conservative can proudly say he has had a hand in throwing the Democratic leadership of Congress into turmoil. Characteristically, he is not satisfied. "Let's have an honest House, and not one corrupted by the arrogance of power," he says. "I'm out to break the Democratic machine...