Word: listening
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...invitation in his capacity as chairman of the foreign affairs commission of the Supreme Soviet, the U.S.S.R.'s largely ceremonial parliament. Last year he led another parliamentary delegation on a two-week tour of Canada, impressing his hosts with a lively intelligence and the ability to listen carefully. British diplomats were delighted with his latest travel plans. "If he really is the Kremlin's No. 2 man, we want to see as much of him as possible," explained a British diplomat. "And we want him to see as much of us as possible...
...another essay, Rooney remembers that "when I was twelve, my mother bought me a corduroy suit. It must have been the first real suit with matching pants and jacket that I ever had. It even had a vest." To listen to an old senile relative ramble on like this would be considered an act of charity almost above and beyond the call of duty, but to buy a book full of these uninteresting memories from a stranger is sheer lunacy. They are written as simply and as poorly as first-grade primers: Rooney admits. "I dislike retyping a piece...
...cavillers cry out against such an alleged "Daddy Dearest," but don't listen to them. Home Before Dark might unearth some spicy secrets, but it is not sensational: and while it may occasionally embarrass some friends and relatives, it remains loving and sincere to the memory of America's great short story writer and novelist, John Cheever...
...YEARS ago, when Ethiopia's last famine helped to replace Haile Selassie's regime with a Marxist government, experts said that future starvation waves would be predictable and therefore manageable. Although the experts were correct in the first assertion, they didn't realize that no one would listen to their prophesies, rendering the second meaningless. Warnings of impending doom that began to surface two years ago went virtually unheeded by western governments, the media, relief agencies and Ethiopian officials themselves until it was too late...
From the beginning, the station has carried live broadcasts of many major Harvard sports contests. A large number of Harvard alumni and students in the area listen regularly, according to Program Director Michael I Rosenberg '85, and only recently, he notes have other stations carried the games...