Word: speakes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...broke out in the ballroom. In attempts to put out the fire by going through the kitchen door to the ballroom, ((hotel employees)) found that a door was barred, barricaded from the inside." Nonetheless, Torruella refused to speculate about who might have started the blaze. "I would prefer to speak just of facts. The fact is that the fire broke out in the ballroom...
Adam Matheny of the Louisville Twin Study, the oldest of U.S. twin study groups, says the "mechanism for change is laid down the moment a child is conceived" and that the genes provide a "rough sketch of life." Some psychologists who stress the influence of genes on behavior often speak as if nurture were a by-product of nature. "All of us make our own environment," says Developmental Psychologist Sandra Scarr of the University of Virginia. Lykken makes the same point: "The environment molds your personality, but your genes determine what kind of environment you have, seek and attend...
...boosters countered the cosmopolitan claims of the competition by stressing the advantages of the more tranquil Midwest. Over cocktails at a Mission Hills mansion, Mark Russell, a Kansas City developer, genially assured Democrats, "We don't have race riots here, we don't have crazies, and all our cabdrivers speak English...
...future officials, the Chinese undergraduates are supremely political-minded. They feel it their duty to have political views, almost as though they were running for political office in local government or for Congress. Their education, much as in the old Confucian terms, has given them a responsibility to speak out on behalf of the national interest and the public welfare. In this moral sense they feel they "represent" the Chinese people at large...
...certain leaders catering to students or enlisting their support for factional-political ends. Since the Chinese Communist Party still tries, even if forlornly, to act as a united body in leading the country, all policy discussions are under heightened tension. The idea of a loyal opposition able to speak freely without being regarded as disloyal is not yet established. To support a minority view and be defeated can be a real disaster. Politics is highly personal, whether or not ideological...