Word: rug
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...vision" he wanted in a chief executive officer. Others saw a more visceral reason. "Paley only feels threatened when his president achieves something," says Anthony Hoffman, entertainment-industry analyst at the Bache Halsey Stuart Shields securities firm. "Whenever he gets the feeling that he is dispensable, he pulls the rug." Adds Michael Dann, a for mer CBS programming chief: "Paley operates his candy store exactly the same way he did back when CBS began...
Mitchell didn't laugh, he roared: "Goddamn it, Liddy; that's where I'm staying. You better not have any hippies pissing all over my rug!" When I rose to leave, Mitchell said, with a twinkle in his eye, "I mean it; keep those weirdos out of my room...
...going to sit back and let the Third World Center be pushed under the rug through the formation of a committee," Lydia P. Jackson '82, president of the Black Students Association (BSA), one of the campus groups sponsoring the center proposal, said yesterday...
Kabul does retain some scraps of its former character. Donkeys laden with wicker panniers of fruit plod along the muddy side streets. Women beggars, their faces concealed completely by hoods with mesh eye holes, wail for baksheesh outside rug stores. Turbaned tribesmen from the mountains stride along shouldering huge bundles. Boys offer sticks of lamb shashlik grilled over charcoal at street corners. Outside moviehouses there are garish posters of Afghan-made westerns in which ersatz Omar Sharifs twirl six-shooters in each hand. But the cinemas are open only in the afternoons, and ticket sales are slow because...
What were the conflicting Iranian statements supposed to mean? To some observers, they were an example of skillful psychological warfare aimed at wearing down Washington's resolve. Other experts contended that the Iranians were merely behaving like rug merchants in a classic Persian bazaar, demanding the maximum but willing to settle for quite a bit less...