Word: listening
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...letter means -- will be complicated by a similar dispute in Washington. State is trying to interpret the letter in a way that leaves the negotiators with more latitude, while Defense protests and obstructs every inch of the way. The Soviets, who have been complaining about not knowing whom to listen to in the cacophony coming out of Washington, will be all the more confused...
...anyone has a chance of laying out a sound middle path for U.S. policy, it is Lugar. Late last week, Delaware Democrat Joseph Biden, one of the Senate's most vehement supporters of tough sanctions, said, "I will truly listen to whatever Dick Lugar has to say on South Africa, and I think there's a reasonable prospect he will propose something with real teeth...
...have mercy (another great Western trait) on my soul and let me rejoin the just philosophical tradition that I learned at my mother's bosom. Your judgement is the right judgement Mr. President, and I obey your commands but now please reconsider. Please, pleeeze...." He didn't listen...
...leaped to more than $7 million three years later. "We're not dealing with a Hula-Hoop phenomenon," says its president, Harold J. Newman. "The underlying base of the business continues to grow every year, and bookstores continue to dedicate more space to books on cassette." Another successful producer, Listen for Pleasure, also refuses to heed the Cassandras. "At first no one understood what we were selling," says Vice President Eileen Rundell. "They thought it was a product for the blind. But now we project earnings of from $10 million to $12 million this year, more than 17 times...
...major part of our market is middle class," he finds. These people are "well off, earn a minimum of $35,000 a year, are between the ages of 25 and 54 and are about evenly divided between female and male. A large number of them buy the tapes to listen to while commuting...