Word: outset
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Nonetheless, Reagan's decision to disappear with Gorbachev for nearly an hour at the very outset came as a surprise to his advisers. As the two leaders remained behind closed doors on that first morning and their aides began a reverse countdown, ticking off how long they were exceeding their schedules, one American official came up to Shultz, nervously pointing at his watch and fretting that the Big Two were not keeping to the program. Retorted Shultz: "If you're dumb enough to go in there and break it up, you don't deserve to be employed here...
...career deep down; it is a protest against being overwhelmed by the speed of things, against letting the world get away from us. When Dickens' daughter died, he was in London and his wife in the country; he wrote her a letter telling her at the outset, "You must read this letter very slowly." Joe Kraft died on Jan. 10. You must read his death very slowly. The missing piece is the one that counts. --By Roger Rosenblatt
Their American counterparts were less hospitable. The White House press center (a taxi ride away from the center of town in a city with no taxis) was open only to accredited White House correspondents, much to the annoyance of European journalists. At the outset, harried U.S. officials seemed peeved that they had to deal with the press...
With 83 percent of undergraduates participating, response rates exceeded the goal set by the Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE) at the outset of the project...
Some professors had raised concerns before the meeting about whether Summers lied to them last month when he denied that he had considered allowing other faculties besides FAS to award Ph.D. degrees. But after Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby repeated at the outset of yesterday’s meeting that he had never participated in conversations about such a change, the issue was not discussed further...