Word: proclaiming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...there will be strong pressures driving the center and the republics toward compromise. Neither seems able to overcome the other economically; the republics can probably no more get the managers of state enterprises to obey their commands than Gorbachev can enforce his decrees. Yeltsin and his aides proclaim continued readiness to join Gorbachev in some kind of coalition government of "national trust" to guide the Union through the wrenching transition to a market economy. The Yeltsinites insist, however, that any coalition must drop Prime Minister Nikolai Ryzhkov. So far, Gorbachev has shown no disposition to dump...
...unless they proclaim themselves vehemently, lesbians generally remain overlooked. While two men living together typically occasion comment, women living together don't. Simply being unmarried and of mature years can subject a man to scrutiny about his sexual preference -- it happened to David Souter after his nomination to the Supreme Court -- but an "old maid" more often faces just pity or condescension. Although most social scientists have rejected the view that homosexuality is far less common among women than men, the idea persists in the public at large. When homosexuals are discussed in the media, men are almost always...
...both BMW and Daimler-Benz, the maker of Mercedes, are flush with profits, thanks in part to the booming German economy. BMW aims to produce a record 520,000 cars this year, up 1.6% from 1989. Both companies proclaim their readiness to take on the Japanese luxury cars, but their fear is showing. "The Lexus is not a Mercedes, but as a portent of what they are able to do, it is more worrying," says John Evans, a British spokesman for Mercedes. "You ignore the Japanese at your peril...
...rumors arose last spring that Blanchard might choose a new running mate in seeking a third four-year term this year, she snapped, "He should be taken immediately to a psychiatrist." And as Blanchard spread his hopeful view that Griffiths might quietly withdraw, she called a press conference to proclaim that she was "available" to run again. Finally, following his announcement that he did not want her on the ticket, Griffiths declared, "The biggest problem in politics is that you help some s.o.b. get what he wants, and then he throws you off the train...
...looked upon as over-achieving, obnoxious high-school kids, but we are told we are only here for the summer and are therefore only pseudo-Harvard students. The other day, as I was walking past a tour group in front of the John Harvard statue. I heard the guard proclaim that the students seen around campus "were not real Harvard students" and that they were only "here for the summer as part of a high-school program...