Word: phoning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Griffin is a hands-on chief executive, thoroughly involved in planning and now plotting takeover strategy. He oversees a staff of 120 in Los Angeles and is constantly on the phone to Griffin Co. President Michael Nigris, who directs 100 employees in New York City. Griffin the businessman is a tougher character than the talk-show host who sympathetically listened to an endless parade of guests. To beat Donald Trump, Griffin will have to be as aggressive behind the scenes as he was agreeable in front of the camera...
...said he agreed with that principle. His main objection to the Restoration Act was that it contained ambiguous language that could be interpreted to allow federal dictation to small businesses and even churches and synagogues. Some foes of the bill took up the cry and unloosed a barrage of phone calls to Capitol Hill. Jerry Falwell's Moral Majority charged, somewhat hysterically, that the bill could force churches to hire a "practicing, active homosexual drug addict with AIDS to be a teacher or youth pastor." Some mainstream religious groups scoffed at these fears as chimeras. Even most Republicans seemed less...
June 18: Al Gore had been preparing for this summit for months. Every phone call, every chance meeting in airports, had been designed to lay the groundwork. Now, as Gore sat across the table from Jackson in Carthage, Tenn., he sensed that the nomination was in his grasp. "Jesse, this is what you've been fighting for all your life," Gore began quietly. "Unlike any other black in history, you have been given the power to choose the next President...
...government in the occupied territories quit their jobs, some out of sympathy for the movement, some out of fear. The Israelis responded with new measures, including a ban on delivery of gasoline and cooking fuel to Palestinian towns, a nightly curfew throughout the Gaza Strip, and disruption of international phone service linking the territories with the rest of the world. During the week, eight more Palestinians were shot dead in the violence, raising the Arab death toll...
...issue of his presidential campaign, but enthusiasm in Washington for his measure has almost disappeared since his dismal showing on Super Tuesday. The betting is that Gephardt's amendment will survive, but only in a severely watered-down form. Says a congressional staffer: "Gephardt and Rostenkowski talk on the phone, and it sounds like they are working on face-saving...