Word: manner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...leave South Africa, and offer more encouragement to black workers than the alternative policy of pressing companies at stockholder meetings to improve treatment of black workers. "Harvard has declared its opposition to the South African regime," said Bok, "and has pledged itself to vote on shareholder resolutions in the manner best calculated to overcome apartheid." Calling this course "the most ethically responsible," Bok referred to legal problems facing portfolio managers who buy and sell on political rather than financial grounds. Said he: "Total divestment would almost certainly cause the university to divert millions of dollars in pursuit of a strategy...
...stage also allows dancing room for the goils and their heated-packing henchmen. Frenetic Charlestons were done in all manner of abbreviated costumes. Liz Miller, as one of the chorus, projected energy and delivered lines in a marvelous high-pitched, ingenuous squeak...
DeButts is a large man with a relaxed, almost weary manner that reduces his tendency to lecture during the interview. He is clearly comfortable with the responsibilities of running AT&T, responsibilities that he believes extend to maintaining close personal contact with elected officials in Washington...
...interviews, ordered by a Justice Department directive in early February, help the INS verify that the student has not been "illegally employed" or behaved "in a manner inconsistent with his/her presence in the United States as a student," an INS spokesman said Friday...
...such manner did Roosevelt, with the shrewd instinct of a rampant heterosexual, kick James again and again in his 'obscure hurt,' until the novelist was moved to weary protest. 'The national consciousness for Mr. Theodore Roosevelt is ... at the best a very fierce affair.' James was too courteous to say more in print, but he privately characterized Roosevelt as 'a dangerous and ominous jingo,' and 'the mere monstrous embodiment of unprecedented and resounding Noise...