Word: listening
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bluer-blooded Newport yachting crowd was when the winning skipper, John Bertrand, taunted during the races that the next Cup competition would be sailed out of the mostly working-class port of Fremantle in the sun- drenched Indian Ocean. "It's absolutely glorious," he told anybody who cared to listen. "It is probably the most perfect 12-meter sailing ground in the world...
Last spring more than 5000 people crowded the steps of Memorial Church on the anniversary of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.'s death to listen to the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson and join a rally for divestment. That night, April 4, about 75 protesters camped outside President Derek C. Bok's office and created a non-violent obstacle course for the secretaries and executives attempting to enter the building. Three weeks later, 45 divestment activists staged an eight-hour sit-in at 17 Quincy St., the headquarters of Harvard's governing board. And the following week, about...
...Heimert unlike many other Americans tried to listen rather than prescribe to us what our political views should be," says James Moulder, director of Public Relations at the University of Cape Town of the master's trips to South Africa...
...drove to Hollywood in a U-Haul in 1980, landed a couple of movie bit roles, and was hired as Wheel's tile- turning hostess in 1982. "Turning letters isn't a hard job," admits White, 29. "But you do have to use your peripheral vision and listen to everything." White is quite proud of her performance: "I've never turned over a wrong tile." Indeed, her only major gaffe was the time she tripped and fell off the platform behind a contestant's new Mustang. "I wasn't hurt," she recalls, "but my ego was bruised...
...A.M.A. and A.B.A. war on, with no sign yet of a meeting ground. Representatives of the two groups have got together, the last time two months ago, but nothing much was accomplished. According to James Todd, the A.M.A.'s senior deputy executive vice president, the lawyers "would sit and listen and then promptly give us a lecture on plaintiff rights and judicial history. The greatest frustration is that no one who can do something about it is looking at all the facets." The bitterness between the two professions by now is deeply felt, and lawyers in particular may feel they...