Word: listenability
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...year-old who was suckled in his parents' Val-d'Oise cafe, north of Paris. From his bistro, Le Petit Poucet, Henry sees people pouring into Le Quick, a nearby fast-food outlet. "Their food is cheaper than ours," he admits. "But we have a role in society: to listen to people, to lift their spirits, to provide a place where all social classes mix and converse...
...take time to listen to everyone's feelings, give them time to move, rather than push something through before people were ready, and wait around for people who didn't want to be part of the process...
...alone of Louisiana's 12 prison wardens, helped inmates beat the cutoff. He authorized the prison printshop to run off 5,000 appeal applications. He instructed the prison radio station to hold a question-and-answer program, brought in a lawyer to field questions, then ordered all inmates to listen. He also made sure that illiterate inmates -- fully 70% of the prison population -- got help filling out the forms. "The spirit of cooperation that developed between inmates, and between inmates and security, was unheard-of in the long history of Angola," noted the Angolite. Editor Rideau still marvels. "He chose...
...admit it. I'm Jewish. I don't go to Hillel; I eat my share of shrimp; and I listen to Wagner. And my last name is as goyishe as it gets. But I'm Jewish. I live in Manhattan; I can quote Woody on command; and I observe (Jews never "celebrate") in varying degrees of intensity the high points of the Jewish ritual calendar...
...political institutions that would ensure the continuity of reforms without Yeltsin. Attempts to establish a system of checks and balances are not faring well. The legislature is paralyzed by unending battles with the executive branch. The new constitutional court must work without a proper constitution. The government has to listen to such a deafening chorus of calls for its resignation that ministers cannot concentrate on the business of reform. It falls to the President to keep the operation of state on track. Says Burbulis: "The majority of Russians have confidence not in institutions like the parliament and government...