Word: restlessly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wrangling, the Congress of People's Deputies endorsed by a vote of 1,682 to 43 a sketchy transitional government that establishes an executive State Council and two subordinate bodies, a reconstructed parliament and an Inter-Republican Economic Committee. In tandem, and largely at the sufferance of the increasingly restless republics, the task of these organs will be twofold: to provide the glue that maintains some semblance of unity and to convince the world that there is still a there in Moscow with which to deal...
There are exceptions. The nine-year-old Metropolitan Assembly of God, located in a Do the Right Thing neighborhood in Brooklyn, N.Y., goes all-out to recruit restless teenagers and has a 9,000-student Sunday school. While many of the fastest-growing congregations are young, First Baptist Church of Hammond, Ind., famous for its armada of Sunday-school buses, has been a Fundamentalist fixture for decades...
...Ogilvy & Mather, hardly raised an eyebrow last week when six dozen roses were delivered to him as he ate breakfast in a Manhattan restaurant. Rival agency McCann-Erickson sent the bouquet as part of its campaign to persuade him to switch shops. As the principal executive on the restless American Express account, Bowen conceivably could leave home with the business. If that were to happen, $300 worth of roses would go down in advertising history as one very creative and cost-effective idea...
BUSINESS: Advertisers Get Restless...
...tiresome requirements, not chances to work fresh alchemy on old elements. At 2 hours 20 minutes, the enterprise lacks passion, or even a sense of inspired fun; it is as if the filmmakers were dutifully honoring business commitments. Wading through the torpid spots, director Kevin Reynolds seems like a restless kid -- or, maybe, like the audience -- impatient to get on with the swashbuckling...