Word: moment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...unions had asked him to launch a bid for the airline. Icahn briefly considered such a bid last fall. He found the idea interesting, he said, but did not want to interfere in Eastern's collective-bargaining process. Lorenzo was cool to the suggestion. "Our major goal at the moment is coming to an agreement with our unions," he said. "I can't imagine how having someone like Icahn get involved will do anything but interfere with the process...
Peasant support is crucial to the kind of rural-based war the F.M.L.N. is fighting. The impoverished farmers of Usulutan, for example, supply the rebels with food, information and labor. Says a civilian supporter in Santa Ana: "The moment a soldier asks you the whereabouts of the guerrillas, and you lie and say you don't know, from that moment you are collaborating with the guerrillas. And there are thousands of us like that...
...normal" dining table, there are probably about four or five people seated together. There are about 500 Blacks at Harvard. Pretend for a moment that there is a Black table, with five Blacks seated, at each of the 14 undergraduate dining halls...
That may be all Harvard can hope for at the moment...
...powerful soprano, the beauty of Davidson's tone as well as her careful musical phrasing was more than able to compensate for her occasional lack of projection Susanna's most memorable aria, coming late in the fourth act ("Giunse alfin il momento che godro senza affanno"--"At last the moment is near when carefree I shall exult") was quite beautiful and an exercise in difficult stage acting as well. Nelman's Figaro was an equally dashing figure with a formidable presence...