Word: manner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Schlesinger says he and his fellow mandarins agreed to play their roles, without pay, "to demonstrate that U.S. Governments do not act in a harum-scarum manner." To that end they sat in ABC's Washington studios for 18 hours over a recent weekend. As they argued the twists and turns of the crisis before them, the controllers, watching on TV monitors, played the rest of the world-Moscow, NATO, Congress, the U.S. press...
Shortly after Telling took command in early 1978, a secret document known as the "Yellow Book" leaked out of Chicago headquarters. It laid out the company's woes in a disarmingly direct manner. "We are not a fashion store, we are not a store for the whimsical, nor the affluent," it declared. "Sears is a family store for middleclass, homeowning Americans." To refocus the company, Telling in 1980 promoted Edward Brennan, a third-generation company man, to head the merchandise group-to the astonishment of longtime employees; Brennan was only 46 at the time...
...manner of speech can make him seem self-absorbed, but co-op residents say that is a false impression. "He really does care a lot about people in the house although he seems to distance himself," explains Minter...
...time to start closing the door. Story, which was recently suppressed, became one of the first victims of China's newest and most novel political campaign. For the past month authorities have been waging a war to eliminate "spiritual pollution," a deliberately vague term that embraces every manner of bourgeois import from erotica to existentialism. According to Communist Party Propaganda Chief Deng Liqun, spiritual pollution includes "obscene, barbarous or reactionary materials, vulgar taste in artistic performances, indulgence in individualism" and statements that "run counter to the country's social system." Ostensibly aimed at those with a taste...
...recognized that some people refuse on ethical grounds to allow as objections. Ble an official as Casper Weinberger in come and go without somehow making their opposition knows, Weinberger as used our tax dollars to invade another country, to divert the nation's wealth from human needs to every manner and other disastrous policies. Most galling of all, tax money is used to pay for the massive volume of public statements and press briefings by which Weinberger justifies the government's actions. It is commendable that a few people refund to ignore the dictates of their consciences and common sense...