Word: quiets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...parties: the beer flows merrily from countless kegs; the stereo hum rumbles throughout the entire dorm; people are dancing; the furniture is flying; and Harvard seems a million miles away. Someone downstairs with a Chem 20 hourly the next day asks politely for a little more quiet. A fellow wearing only boxer shorts and a lampshade advises him to stick a carbon chain model in his ear. The volume knob hits "10." The police arrive...
...have to learn that ambassadors to Washington from other nations actually have a right to see them," Rusk says. Nixon loved protocol that was glamorous, but often balked at routine receptions and meetings. Kissinger soon learned that if events were simply inserted into the President's schedule, the quiet authority of the printed word subdued his protests and Nixon performed the required rituals without complaint...
...confrontation at Iowa Beef, the largest U.S. beef processor, comes at a time of generally quiet labor-management relations in the U.S. The last thing most workers want is a long strike in a deep recession. Many unions are giving back past contract gains or accepting meager wage hikes. Nearly 2 million union members, primarily in the auto and trucking industries, have forgone raises in contracts negotiated in the first half of the year. The Labor Department released figures last week on major collective-bargaining agreements showing that from January to June, average salary increases, including cost of living adjustments...
...office in May 1981 has studiously avoided open conflict with the Reagan Administration. Said French Foreign Minister Claude Cheysson: "We no longer speak the same language. There is a remarkable incomprehension between Europe and the U.S." A recent French decision to renew arms sales to Nicaragua, despite a quiet pledge to Washington not to do so, has been widely interpreted as a signal of growing French pique over the sanctions...
...people's hatreds can be more stifling than a peanut suit. Readers of Plante's other novels know that Daniel becomes an expatriate writer like the author. To the extent that this suggests autobiography, the image of Daniel drawing himself drawing himself is a special effect, a quiet counterpoint to popular entertainments like TRON in which characters noisily inhabit their electronic fictions. -By R.Z. Sheppard