Word: listening
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...idea was eventually rejected as hokey. Says Washington Lobbyist William Timmons, who has played a major role in every G.O.P. Convention since 1968: "We will have a clean, crisply paced, well-managed demonstration of Republican unity... There will be some powerful messages, well presented. But whether anyone will listen-well, we have to hold our audience somehow...
Sears is constantly searching to learn who its customers are, what they like, what they are avoiding, how they are changing. It is a vast constituency that Sears kneads, reads, tries to listen to, examines, interprets. Through one of the largest systems of IBM computers outside the U.S. Government, the company keeps track of what is.being bought and where. Each morning just after 7, Merchandise's Brennan enters his office and calls up a display on his computer terminal that can tell him the dollar volume of all Sears stores the previous day. He can also look at sales...
...Fear is not important tonight," Layton was preaching, "knowledge is. You've got to listen.'God, that's a word we haven't heard in a long time...
...closest Mondale came to campaigning was a crack about the President's qualified denial of any plans to raise taxes. "I took a break from fishing to listen to Mr. Reagan," said the Democratic nominee. "I've been hearing fish stories all week, but tonight Mr. Reagan told a big one ... The American people don't want a fish story, they want the truth from their President before the election...
...made impossible negotiations as proposed by the Soviet government." The chilly abruptness of that statement was unexpected. Nonetheless, the Reagan Administration politely but firmly continued to call for talks on intermediate-range and intercontinental missiles, as well as space weapons. "If the Soviets don't wish to listen, they don't have to," said White House Spokesman Larry Speakes, "but our goal is to restore some dialogue on the subject...