Word: sooner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wish he had listened to his father sooner. A few weeks after the election, at a family dinner, the President encouraged his children to consider legitimate business opportunities but warned against exploitation. If they had any doubts, he said, they should check with a White House adviser. In office, however, President Reagan discontinued guidelines, adopted late in the Carter Administration, that discouraged members of the President's family from joining firms doing business with the Federal Government...
...last week, and it seems likely that A.B.T. will try more works from this modern choreographer. Next season there will be several new one-act ballets; one or more may come from the company's Choreographic Workshop, which has commissioned ballets from six promising choreographers. Says Baryshnikov: "Sooner or later some choreographer should find a permanent place in this company...
...Europe during which he tried to bring foreign pressure to bear on the Botha government for an end to South Africa's apartheid policies. Said the unrepentant Tutu after politely handing over the travel document: "Nothing the government does will stop us from becoming free. Sooner or later-perhaps sooner than he thinks-the Prime Minister will be begging me to take back my passport and to intervene when things get rough...
Gretzky needs nothing to remind him of why he wears the unusual number 99 on his blue-and-orange Oilers uniform. His $5 million-plus contract runs until 1999, with an option to renegotiate sooner. A friend asked if he would demand more money after this season's stellar performance. Gretzky replied, "Naw. If I'd had a bad year, I wasn't going to give the money back." Oilers Owner Peter Pocklington is enthusiastic: "I was offered $2 million for him, but $10 million wouldn't buy him. There's no price on greatness...
...sooner had the [Camp David] treaty been signed than Begin gave up promoting the peace process. He withdrew into his pipedreams. At the same time he began to treat this peace we had struggled for as something banal, almost despicable...