Word: pleasingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Several years ago, Rendell wrote two screenplays but she refuses to do any more or to attempt a play for the stage, despite pleas from producers, because "I cannot stand the tedious business of having to tell everything through dialogue." She is protective of her stories in the hands of...
So far Mubarak's recent pleas have garnered no new funds. The IMF, the U.S. and other Western governments instead have insisted that Egypt take bolder steps to reform its bloated, inefficient economy. They are pressing Cairo to encourage more private investment. But their most frequent target is Egypt's...
The seemingly intractable trade deficit is reviving pleas for protectionism. This week the House of Representatives will reconsider ) legislation to assist the ailing textile industry by drastically reducing imports. President Reagan has vetoed this bill, but the House will now vote on a proposal to override that veto. Supporting textile...
A few words trickle out of one's memory from the television pleas for funds to refurbish this statue. In them, Lady Liberty spoke, mourning her tarnished condition like an aging prima donna. If she could not be repolished, she threatened, "I shall become a symbol of shame."
But by week's end Philadelphians no longer had to go out of town to dispose of their trash. Garbage haulers decided to go back to work after Common Pleas Court Judge Edward J. Blake declared that some 2,400 strikers and their leaders were in contempt for ignoring his...