Word: listening
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Congressional leaders invited to listen to the speech were predictably unimpressed. House Speaker Tip O'Neill commented that the President sounded as if he was "trying to stall for time." Said Republican Senator Danforth: "One speech does not make a policy." Reagan, however, did shore up resistance by some Republicans against the Democrat-led drive for protectionism. Said Pennsylvania Senator John Heinz: "We have to have legislation that at least matches the President's rhetoric and perhaps goes beyond it." But, he mused, "Are we going to limit presidential discretion? That is the $64,000 question...
...floor of a dance club at 3 o'clock in the morning. "That's the first level of communication," says Steve Van Zandt, who, as Little Steven, wrote the song and coproduced it with Arthur Baker. "Everybody likes to dance." If everybody can hold still long enough and listen to some lyrics, however, he will get an earful. Sun City is aimed right at the top of the charts, but its sentiments are not the sort of material usually found in Billboard...
...observation benefits cut both ways, as well. I saw numerous Cuban observation posts around the perimeter of the base. They watch U.S. naval maneuvers and listen to communications, just as we watch and listen to them...
...someone wants to be informed they have to make an effort to listen to the radio and read newspapers, Cohen says, adding it is not enough to rely on 22 minutes of network news...
...Assembly this week. If he is able to keep the appointment, he will probably renew an appeal he made three weeks ago during his annual state-of- thenation speech, when he asked for a new round of negotiations to ease repayment conditions. He can only hope that lenders will listen--and respond favorably...