Word: sooner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...secret monster of egotism. Not so secret, either -- not from him." But such knowledge, in these stories, brings gains as well / as losses, the wisdom that only experience can impart. One character realizes: "Moments of kindness and reconciliation are worth having, even if the parting has to come sooner or later." This book is full of such compassion, and such moments...
...think that it's in our mutual interest that my views be listened to. We will be able to repay the principal that much sooner if we are permitted to grow. I cannot allow my people to suffer more. For the banks, it is a matter of being able to tell their stockholders that they will get their money back. But in our case it's a question of whether our people will have enough to eat. I will impress upon the banks that this is a different kind of government from that of Marcos, and we expect different treatment...
Although their eloquence was timeless and theirwords pregnant with meaning, all of the advice andadmonitions so freely given those two days fell ondeaf ears. Sooner than anyone hoped or expected,the Second World War engulfed the nations,changing them and Harvard forever...
...Morgan Jr.'s private car, the Erie 400, is rolling again, partly owned by John Hankins, an attorney from Huntington, W.Va. Most private-car owners seem to be fairly affluent, though some admit to being drastically less affluent after upkeep and renovations. "Sooner or later the cost of maintaining a car gets to you," says Larry Haines, 71, a retiree who has spent nearly $40,000 on the Clover Colony in 14 years. Haines' car is a bargain compared with the Caritas, a 1948 Pullman bought for $10,000 three years ago by Clark Johnson, a Denver physicist. Some...
...sooner had Turner completed the MGM/UA acquisition than he started looking to reduce the debt mountain by finding a buyer for the company's movie-production-and-distribution business, its film-processing labs and its 45-acre studio lot near Los Angeles. In June he negotiated a complicated three-way deal in which the studio and film lab were sold to Lorimar- Telepictures (producers of Dallas and Falcon Crest), and the movie, TV and video operations went right back to Kerkorian. Proceeds from those sales might be sufficient to meet the September debt payments, but the terms are still under...