Word: pledgees
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despite Banisadr's hopes, however, the thing did not move. Armed with Carter's message, the Iranian President argued for five hours with his opponents on the Revolutionary Council, maintaining that he had received what amounted to a "formal and public" pledge from Carter and that the Council...
Not really, not ever. The famous lines of Bette Davis are as fixed in the national consciousness as the Pledge of Allegiance. There is Margo Charming in All About Eve warning her friends to fasten their seat belts because "it's going to be a bumpy night." There is...
Boullioun is, in an almost literal sense, a one-man sales force, not merely drumming up deals on his own initiative but also parachuting in to stroke a wavering or reluctant customer if an assistant should call for help. Example: last December he learned that TWA was leaning toward the...
The minority leaders' key demand is that the bureau pledge in advance to adjust its official tally if a planned postcensus sampling reveals an undercount. Barabba balks at making such a promise maintaining that "it is still an open question." One problem is that a detailed adjustment could not...
After the morning Pledge of Allegiance, a third-grade teacher in Watertown, Mass., asks whether anyone wants to pray. "Not in school," responds one pupil. "I'd feel embarrassed to share a prayer, if I knew one," says another. But eventually eight-year-old Brendan volunteers. Then the teacher...