Word: letting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...public at every opportunity. She was Miss America in 1971 and went on to become a TV celebrity. In the campaign, she put her media training to expert use to help her husband. When the cameras appeared at a gathering in Lexington, she instructed campaign workers: "Smile, people. Let's see some teeth. This is show...
Though Natusch promised to let the May election take place, the COB rejected the plan, leaving the composition of a new regime unsettled...
...seekers, they could bank on a rule of Kenyan politics that says that fewer than half of the sitting legislators ever get reelected. This year, as usual, only about half the incumbents retained their seats. Observed a Kenyan economist: "We don't shoot people in this country. We let the public...
...alternative to violence: Your country overthrew colonial rule because its people were forced to. Armed struggle is a response to what the Establishment is doing. The British soldiers come with weapons. They don't come and say, "Let's try to sort this out." Their political masters don't say, "Let's try some other...
Marina Whitman, the newly appointed chief economist of General Motors, I claims that she can almost cite the fateful day when the men who run New York City's banks declared: "O.K., fellas, we've got to let them in." Them are American women, and it was only half a dozen years ago that they began to be admitted, little by little, to the executive establishment. Whitman knows because when she meets groups of bankers, she sees more and more women junior executives, poised for that big leap up to higher management. But almost...