Word: loyalities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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DiChiaria describes what might be labelled as a cult-like following of the discount chain. "Some people follow our ads from year to year and call to find out if we plan to sell the same day as we did last year," she says. Other loyal followers, "the best bargain hunters in Boston," spend their lunch hours in the store every day of the work week, she adds...
...start speaking live just four minutes after Reagan finished. He opened with a historical reference: in the English Commons dating back to the 14th century, he noted, "speakers" were those designated to speak to the King, a role that occasionally cost them their heads. It made the point that loyal opposition plays an important but sometimes thankless role in a democratic system...
LIKE MAO ZEDONG BEFORE HIM, Deng Xiaoping has been forced to abandon a hand-picked successor and loyal supporter for committing grave political errors. Deng should have the personal prestige, like Mao again, to ride out this considerable reverse. But the history of Mao's cultural revolution should warn Deng that the demotion of Party General Secretary Hu Yaobang may have started the rot not stopped...
...Loyal readers of such Fisher classics as How to Cook a Wolf, The Gastronomical Me, Consider the Oyster and With Bold Knife and Fork are familiar with her life, which includes three marriages and two daughters. Born in Michigan, she was raised in Whittier, Calif., where her father Rex Kennedy was a newspaper editor and publisher. "I am a fifth-generation writer," she says with pride, "even though now I dictate into a cassette. It's awful...
...politics may lead to certain leaders catering to students or enlisting their support for factional-political ends. Since the Chinese Communist Party still tries, even if forlornly, to act as a united body in leading the country, all policy discussions are under heightened tension. The idea of a loyal opposition able to speak freely without being regarded as disloyal is not yet established. To support a minority view and be defeated can be a real disaster. Politics is highly personal, whether or not ideological...