Word: sevens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...newcomer should have known better, of course. He should have realized that the corsage is as dead as the darning egg. His excuse was that after seven years abroad he had moved from Paris to Los Angeles. And as everyone knows, the distance between the Rue de la Paix and the Pacific Coast Highway is measured not in flying hours but in light-years. Catapulted from the European fixation with the past into the Californian intoxication with the future, the returning expatriate felt he had been gone for half a century, and sometimes that he had been born yesterday...
...have. Early on, when I started by myself, I did it several times. Back in '86, a group of seven or eight executive members of Christian Leaders for Responsible Television spent a day and a half visiting with all three networks and expressing our concerns. In essence, their response was "Thank you for coming; we're doing a good job. We'll talk to you anytime you want to talk with...
McCaw Cellular Communications is already the largest operator in the seven- year-old cellular-telephone business, controlling franchise areas with more than 50 million residents throughout 127 small and medium-size markets across the U.S. Last week the company sought to build up its metropolitan business by making a $5.9 billion bid for New York City's LIN Broadcasting, which reaches 18 million potential phone subscribers in such major cities as New York, Los Angeles and Dallas...
Still, the seven-week-long student protest in Tiananmen Square hit with the impact of a revelation, especially since it coincided with a very different sort of democratization taking place in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. While the leaders of China dithered over what to do about the students' occupation of the political heart of the country, President Mikhail Gorbachev presided over the opening of a Congress whose members included purged former comrades, dissident intellectuals and outspoken non-Russian nationalists. In Poland the first halfway-open election in four decades produced a humiliating defeat for the Communist Party...
That attitude was nourished practically from the moment Violeta was born, on Oct. 18, 1929, in the southern Nicaraguan town of Rivas, near the border with Costa Rica. Her father, a wealthy landowner and cattle rancher, sent his seven children abroad to school. Their idea of hardship was bathing in a cold lake at their country cottage. Acute social injustice consisted of being invited to two cotillions on the same evening. When Violeta was 19, she was introduced to an intense-looking young man from Managua whose family owned La Prensa. Pedro Joaquin Chamorro inspected Violeta's deeply sunned face...