Word: minding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When he was Director General of Taxation in South Viet Nam from 1973 to 1974, refunds were far from Nguyen Huy Han's mind. He boasts that he increased revenues threefold by persuasion and strict enforcement of the laws...
...right of "legitimate self-defense" for crime victims who are put in fear of their life. But Legras' home was not occupied when the burglars broke in, and the damage done by his device was deemed out of proportion to the petty thievery the burglars presumably had in mind. For these reasons, the judges decided that traditional definitions of self-defense did not apply in Legras' case. But many others disagreed. The case spurred the formation of a Paris-based Movement for Legitimate Self-Defense, which counts several lawyers and former magistrates among its members. Their goal: a broader legal...
...really be sticking yourself in the job you're in." Adds Ross Anderson, chairman of I. Magnin department stores: "We would never fire someone for turning down a move, but we don't make another offer unless he tells us that he has changed his mind." In response to the move resisters, Bank of America is concentrating on promoting people in their present locations rather than switching executives around so much. BOA's Easley, for example, was promoted May 1, with higher rank and salary in the home office even though he refused the transfer to the San Mateo branch...
...plot is bare-bones simple. Dorothea (Shirley Knight) is a blonde schoolteacher who has read the handwriting on the blackboard. She is spooked by incipient spinsterhood. A recent brief liaison with the school principal, a flighty socialite named Ralph T. Ellis, has lodged the romantic hope in her mind that she is his intended. Bodey...
...Greffulhe, one of the models for the Duchess de Guermantes. All that remained of her remarkable beauty was exquisite bones and unique-colored eyes, which her cousin, the famous Count de Montesquiou, had compared to "black fireflies." Her memory was still young, however, and Proust was as vivid in mind as the day he walked into her salon. "I didn't like him," she recalled. "His sticky flattery was not to my taste. There was something I found unattractive about him ... But, of course, I never saw him after he turned out to be a genius." - GeraldClarke