Word: manner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...subscribe to the domino theory at all. Each society has its own identity and its own political and economic institutions, and the idea of a society's being contaminated ideologically from other sources is incorrect. We are not in danger of being polluted in any manner whatsoever by the Central American political conflicts. We have already had our own revolution, which established a strong political and social infrastructure...
Concerns about appearance and manner may have a place in a medium that uses personalities to attract viewers to the news. But TV executives around the country said that in Craft's case, the show business considerations were insensitively handled and tinged with sexism. Said General Manager Monte Newman of Chicago's WMAQ: "The people in charge were incredibly dumb." When Craft negotiated with KMBC for the $35,000 job in 1980, she told the station's management that she had resented being "made over" as a bee-stung-lipped, bleached blond for a previous post...
...whole, this was not the best idea Bill Miner ever had. He may have been the first man ever to hold up a train in Canada, and to do it in an incongruously sweet manner. According to the film, Miner liked opera, was the tolerant and understanding lover of an abrasive early feminist-photographer and never hurt anyone in the course of his depredation. On the other hand, his takings were minuscule, his life as a fugitive mostly hard. And he managed to rile the lawmen of two countries, who quickly truncated his second career...
...unjust system of taxation. The University could not consider the merits of such claims without undertaking to judge difficult and controversial issues that could distract and divide its students and faculty. To resolve these questions. Harvard would have to take official positions on political questions in a manner that might threaten academic freedom. Students and alumni would object that their tuition payments, and donations were being used to support principles which they strongly opposed. For all these reasons. Harvard cannot agree to reimburse students in such cases, at least unless the moral grounds for their action are clear, compelling...
...Israeli talks boiled down to a series of reassurances. Aware that the Begin government would not back away from its decision, the Administration did not attempt to persuade the Israelis to forgo or postpone their plans. In return, Arens and Shamir agreed to redeploy Israeli troops in an orderly manner, coordinating with the Lebanese army so that it could move into the newly evacuated areas. Said a State Department official: "The Israelis assured us that they have no territorial ambitions in Lebanon and that the projected redeployment is in no way intended to contribute to divisions in Lebanon...