Word: somehow
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Once the rhetoric subsided, a senior Administration official who was on the trip disclosed that the Chinese had been informed in advance that Fang would be invited to the banquet. Beijing expressed its disapproval to the U.S. embassy, which passed on the complaint to Washington, but somehow the message never reached the highest levels at the White House. "The communication in Washington," the official observed wryly, "is less than perfect." Whether the Administration would have removed Fang from the list in any event is another question. Says a U.S. official: "You cannot get into a bargaining situation over a guest...
...undeniable progress, the black middle class still seems more to be poised on the banks of the mainstream than to be swimming in its current. Its members are haunted by a feeling of alienation from the white majority with which they have so much in common, a sense that somehow they still do not quite fit in. They speak again and again of "living in two worlds." In one they are judged by their credentials and capabilities. In the other, race still comes first...
Back in Greece, still only 25, he landed a job as an administrative officer at the Bank of Crete. Five years later, in late 1984 when the Bank of Crete came up for purchase at $9 million, Koskotas somehow produced a bankroll big enough to buy it. He knew exactly where he wanted to go. The Socialists were immersed in an election and Koskotas was determined to curry favor. Within a few months he hired as bank general manager a PASOK veteran, Panayotis Vakalis, whom he knew to be a longtime friend of Andreas Papandreou's. The connection eventually brought...
...responsible for a lot, but we don't have the funds," she explains. "Because we have to have a balanced budget, we have to either set priorities and cut programs or find new revenues somehow...
...editors become convinced that they can somehow unravel the Templars' scheme if they put a secret map under Foucault's pendulum, a device invented by the 19th century physicist Jean-Bernard-Leon Foucault to measure the earth's rotation. The pendulum, which still stands in Paris today, will supposedly indicate a site at which the earth's vital currents can be controlled, earthquakes can be created...