Word: nicely
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...addiction is not affecting broad sectors of Mexican society, as of today. So inevitably that leads everyone in Mexico to view the problem of drugs as less important, and less directly relevant to Mexico, than the way the U.S. perceives the problem. Whether this is fair or not fair, nice or not nice, is irrelevant. To a certain extent this perception is changing in certain parts of the country, not because there is a drug-addiction problem emerging but because there is a level of criminality associated with drug trafficking that is reaching alarming proportions...
...Someone introduced them," he recalls, "but it wasn't me. I was off cooking for 60 guests, but I got the credit . . . or the blame, whatever your perspective. Donna's a nice girl, personable and fun, but I feel sorry for her, and saddened and aggravated by the way she chose to exploit the situation. She figured her life was ruined, and she damn well wanted to get something out of it all. That's O.K., as long as it didn't involve...
...many foreign capitals, official reaction to Bush's new ambassadors is diplomatically neutral. But privately, there is plenty of hand wringing and even some scorn. Secchia, says a senior Italian official, is "a very nice man, but he doesn't know anything." The Bahamas, says a source close to the government, tried to dissuade the U.S. from naming Hecht as Ambassador, but now that he has been selected "there ain't nothing much you can do, just grin and bear it." And although Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke went out of his way to praise nominee Sembler, his choice...
...finds not a winding yellow brick road but a grid of blacktop highways crossing one another at predictable right angles. Instead of tin men and cowardly lions, there is a pride of stolid citizens unashamed of their placid routines and quick with the thank-yous and have-a-nice-days. Wicked witches? Nope, but there is a local drunk who tells dirty jokes...
...nice and cool--the air conditioner is really running great," she said. "People just come in and sit in here...