Word: listening
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Listen, lady, I don't think I have to take this kind of abuse, and I know I don't need to take you and your luggage to the airport...
Talbott does not seem to listen to his own very convincing dismissal of the Soviets' principal argument, which contended that British and French nuclear weapons already constituted an allied deterrent. The small arsenals these NATO partners maintain do not threaten the Soviet Union, and in fact the French forces are not even integrated into the NATO force structure; Talbott knows this, but he does not extend the same type of withering criticism to the Soviet rationale as he does to the American...
...been one of the most helpful people on campus as far as minority student concerns go "Rohana L. Fins '86, co-president of American Indians at Harvard "I don't know of anyone else at Harvard who would listen with the same concern...
...peek through a milling scrum of backs; will be swept at full contemplation speed (about 30 seconds per image) through the galleries; will find their hope to experience Van Gogh's art in its true quality thwarted. Distanced from the work by crowds and railings, they may listen on their Acoustiguides to the plummy vowels of the Met's director, Philippe de Montebello, discoursing like an undertaker on the merits of the deceased. Then they will be decanted into the bazaar of postcards, datebooks, scarves-everything but limited-edition bronze ashtrays in the shape of the Holy...
Natterson says there's more to dedication than drive. "I try to talk to sophomores," he says, adding that listening can be more important. "Sometimes they just want someone to listen to them," he explains...