Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Muller's Peace Corps experience did not contribute to a rapport with Mengistu, though. "I mentioned that I had found it moving to revisit the village in which I had taught and in which Mengistu had been educated," reports Muller. "The remark evoked no response, not the thinnest smile of recognition...
...Smith's remark, heard on a tape of the shuttle's intercom system, was the first indication that any of the seven astronauts killed may have been aware of the January 28 disaster, the worst in the history of space exploration...
Stockman's 'gee-whiz' admissions about the policy vacuum that has permitted the American economy to career close to the fiscal brink have already received more attention (and shekels from Newsweek), than they deserve. What hasn't gotten so much remark is the character of the man himself. Perhaps people are tired of Stockman, perhaps Michael Deaver's shenanigans have supplied everyone's sleaze fix, but Triumph is not only the tale of history's greatest fiscal fiasco, it's an extraordinary summary of the political degeneration of a generation, a moral and institutional slackness that characterizes politics the Harvard...
...LONG as were stuck with talking about potentially volatile topics, it seems unavoidable that people will get testy at times. In a sense, we should be grateful to get by with an occasional hostile glare or caustic remark; at least we don't have to suffer the intolerance characteristic of of more unstable parts of the world, where the most convincing rhetorical arguments are those backed up by automatic weapons...
...dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences has apologized to the Graduate Student Council for a College administrator's remark implying that graduate students do not fully recognize the importance of free speech...