Word: pleasing
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Baker had for months urged West German and Japanese officials to stimulate their economies, preferably by lowering interest rates, and thus encourage U.S. exports. But he felt his pleas were falling on deaf ears. On Sept. 18, the Treasury Secretary warned that if West Germany and Japan refused to take...
There was no way of knowing whether the captives made the pleas freely or were forced to do so by Islamic Jihad. The organization's name means Islamic Holy War and it is believed loyal to Iran.
SUCH A POLICY is not only arrogant, it is--as Shultz cautioned in his Harvard address--short sighted and ultimately destructive. When we ignored the pleas of our allies, the Australians, we not only endangered the prospects for open free trade but also tarnished our reputation as good neighbors.
First, there was the CUE Guide controversy a year ago, when an administrator in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences thought it would be better if students weren't informed of their peers' opinions of certain professors. So he censored the write-ups of several courses, omitting student criticism of...
Ulysses Grant and his son checked into the Willard in 1864, and the clerk, so used to the high and mighty, did not recognize the man who commanded nearly a million troops. As President, Grant would often wander out of the loneliness of the White House and come to the...