Word: pleasing
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Similar pleas from restaurateurs and unions defeated a harsher plan by John F. Kennedy in 1961 to put a $4 to $7 limit on the deductibility of business meals. The greatest irony of the expense-account imbroglio is that the people likely to be most hurt by a crackdown are...
Perhaps Shahak's unruly teddy-bear appearance belies his public identity as a "dangerous" critic of the Israeli status quo; perhaps his thick accent and inattention to English syntax when speaking camouflages the eloquence of his pleas for human rights. Although he might appear less at home in a law...
Every Friday thousands of natives stream out of the jungle to buy copies of Wantok (literally, "One Talk," but meaning people who speak the same language), a weekly publication in pidgin distributed by Papua New Guinea's Protestant and Catholic churches. Until 1972, many of the natives bought such...
Philadelphia: Tough-Guy Style A federal grand jury last week indicted three Philadelphia policemen for violating the civil rights of Machinist Edgardo Ortiz, 26. One night last June, according to eyewitnesses, the cops rapped on Ortiz's glass front door and demanded to question him about a report of...
This perception was strengthened by the refusal of postal workers to process mail from Grunwick to its film-service customers. After ignoring pleas from postal union officials to stop their illegal blockade, 100 workers were suspended without pay. They showed up at the local sorting office anyway, delivering mail to...