Word: quiets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...boxcarful of money for its whim (some $9,000 a day, or more than $1,100 an hour, for instance, just for the services of Star Model Isabella Rossellini), and arguing costs about $50 a word. So Nick LaMicela, the project's art director, has selected a quiet country road, with no palm trees to spoil the illusion of France. Somebody has found a French cowherd. Actually he is a Puerto Rican waiter, but in beret, smock and scarf, and with rouge on his round cheeks to suggest a history of drinking wine for breakfast, he looks as French...
...their capacity for suffering. It made them the world's best airline passengers, but had given them one of the world's worst airlines. Surely this 'mustn't grumble' attitude accounted for a great deal of Britain's decline? But of course it made the place nice and quiet. Our vices are so often our virtues as well...
Just off Route 16 in the remote, rustic greenery of western Massachusetts lives a tall, slender, sophisticated man who spends his quiet days at a drawing board designing yachts. William G. Anderson 19 sketches in his South Natick hilltop home, which is decorated by wooden half-ship models an embroidered oriental rug, and a thick red leatherbound photo album, which records the almost two decades he spent entertaining foreign heads of state, prominent intellectuals and businessmen who wanted to see Harvard...
...President appears ready to try the other tack. Baker has been authorized to begin quiet negotiations with the Budget Committee to push the defense increase closer to 7%-which is the consensus among moderates in Congress of what a generous level would be-before the final 1984 spending package is approved. What was intended as a campaign to educate the public about defense spending turned out to be an education for the White House on political realities...
Driefontein's resistance to the draconian program had an unlikely leader in Saul Mkhize, 48, a quiet, slender accountant. He owned the land that his grandfather had settled in 1912, when 300 black families pooled their resources to purchase a 6,000-acre tract. But in 1981 the government announced that it needed all the land in Driefontein to build a dam. To show that they were serious, officials arrived to paint numbers on the heart-shaped gravestones in the Driefontein cemetery in preparation for moving the remains. Mkhize and his neighbors protested vigorously, insisting that they owned...