Word: plea
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Powers' letter agrees with the union leaflet's plea for a "healthy atmosphere" for negotiation, but says such a climate will not result "from the distribution of unauthorized and untrue statements...
...added significantly, "the state should not be selling matches." He denounced "ultra-leftism" and the inefficiency, incompetence and petty corruption that have plagued various ministries. Next day he sacked three Cabinet ministers and, in a subsequent shuffle, appointed five whites to the Cabinet. He delivered an impassioned plea for former Portuguese settlers, now living elsewhere in Africa, to return to Mozambique and promised special business incentives for them if they did so. Even before that, Machel had been host to a delegation representing 23 multinational companies. Said he: "There is a place in our country for private external investment...
...area. They were particularly concerned that the construction would increase an already severe water shortage. In addition, Matheson claimed, the invasion of the construction crews would change forever what he called "the chosen way of life" of people in the region's tiny rural communities. Beyond their plea to Congress, the Governors plan to wage a trench-by-trench defense against the MX by showing that the project would violate provisions of the National Environmental Policy...
...concept reappears on Get Happy!! in "B Movie," this time with a meaner, more controlled vocal; but the style, the emotion, is successfully rendered in "Riot Act." Hanging on every heavy, condemnatory thump of Pete Thomas's drum as he is led into custody, Elvis makes a last-stand plea on behalf of emotion to a cold, insolent spouse. Elvis climaxes musically by extending the verse just short of the chorus, tension building as he fights to squeeze more and more lines into the measures until he rams against the downbeat and spills over, sobbing, into the refrain (which, incidentally...
Deep in his recent State of the Union speech, which was mostly devoted to world affairs, the President inserted a two-word sentence of great domestic import: "Eliminate waste." It is likely that a good many Americans reacted to this presidential plea for conservation, as they would to any other, with a silent question: Who-me? Such bewilderment is understandable. The truth is that during the nation's rush to mid-century prosperity the notion of individual frugality practically went out of business. "Prodigality is the spirit of the era," Social Critic Vance Packard declared in The Waste Makers...