Word: listenability
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...administration so far has refused to listen to undergraduates who with to retain the character of Harvard's houses. Only alumni can convince the Harvard administration to stop the agent which is destroying the houses' character--non-ordered choice...
...What, a girl is training men to fly for Uncle Sam?" teases the ad. "Don't let those eyes and that smile fool you. When this young lady starts talking airplanes, brother, you'd listen...
...works like this: Identify a problem, find a solution, implement the solution. No nonsense. After all, consensus is for "sissies." And when you're a multibillionaire, you get the feeling you know what you're doing. Ross has his ideas, and he is not running for president to listen to the ideas of others...
...major obstacle to sustainable development in many countries is a social structure that gives most of the nation's wealth to a tiny minority of its people. "A person who is worrying about his next meal is not going to listen to lectures on protecting the environment," says R.K. Pachauri, director of New Delhi's Tata Energy Research Institute. What to Northern eyes seems like some of the worst environmental outrages -- felling rain forests to make charcoal for sale as cooking fuel, for example -- are often committed by people who have no other form of income. Yet if the barriers...
That is not what others say. One member of the peace team disparages even her p.r. success. "It's not the person telling the story that matters," he says. "It's the willingness of the world to listen." While Hanan is a member of the "higher committee" that determines Palestinian positions in the negotiations, her colleagues differ on how influential she is there. She does not have the automatic gravitas belonging to representatives of the various factions; on the other hand, her often sound advice follows no party line. Another delegate says she is just an "excellent packager." A third...