Word: silents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...loans. One of the firm's lawyers then got a call from an old law school friend whose firm was going to take over the company's legal work and wanted to see if there was anything he should know about the company. The first lawyer chose to keep silent about the fraud and, when the company later went bankrupt, the second firm lost...
...were the qualities George Shultz was expected to contribute as Reagan's second Secretary of State. But they are scarcely the words that leap to mind today. On issue after issue, Shultz has let others take the lead in defining policy, sometimes joining them in harsh speech, sometimes keeping silent. The result over the past month or so has been an Administration swing to tough talk, especially on El Salvador but on other subjects as well, that surprises many observers at home and abroad. Says one French government official: "What we are seeing in Washington these days is the comeback...
...Detroit, where the man in charge was briefly known as "Ayatullah" lacocca, there are dozens of eerily silent rooms with long rows of empty desks at company headquarters...
...Galbraeth was standing for a moment across the street at the gates of Widener Library, from which spot she could glance up at t balcony where the Porcellians sat. She could see the tall, handsome boys etched like goads against the darkening sky, the latest generation bred to nobility, silent. She could try to fathom what was in their hearts. And, like them, she could dream of the ineffable values of Harvard, and try to embrace them, for a moment...
...down; it always has in the past. And meanwhile attendance will keep dropping at women's marches, posters will keep featuring degrading "teasers" to titillate ticket-buyers, and men will continue to rape women, quietly perhaps, in dark alleys--not with a cheering barroom audience, but with a silent and much larger...