Word: speakes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shops offer 450 items, ranging from a $1.25 heart-shaped pen to a $100 crystal plate, and the airport location guarantees captive high-income customers. Foreign travelers seem to appreciate that members of the sales staff speak seven languages, from French to Chinese. If sales at the Express Shops take off, Bloomingdale's plans to open stores at other airports, both in the U.S. and abroad...
...through contacts with a former CIA agent called Max Gomez. I feel pretty darn strongly about this because I've heard these rumors and I've been a victim of some of them. I've told the truth, and yet I continue to read these stories. So I can speak more viscerally than if I hadn't felt the sting of some of these false charges. There is this insidious suggestion that I was conducting an operation. It's untrue, unfair and totally wrong. I met Max Gomez three times and never discussed Nicaragua with him. What I did discuss...
...country -- might have to pay a heavy price for this latest and most serious blow to the credibility and competence of U.S. foreign policy. The prestige of the President has been seriously weakened, his staff is in disarray, and the Administration seems less able than ever to speak with a coherent voice on matters ranging from arms control to antiterrorism. Reagan's ability to project a sound foreign policy was badly hurt by revelations that he deceived the American people, Congress and the world about his stance against dealing for hostages and sending arms to Iran. The latest disclosures that...
...risers and shafts that it became the first steel-and-glass building to exclude almost all natural light from its cavernous interior. Since Beaubourg was meant to be (in the jargon of the day) a culturally transparent, non-elitist, participatory, anti-hierarchical, modular omnisensorium, it had no walls to speak of: walls were for palaces and prisons. Instead it had temporary screens, on which its Matisses and Miros hung transfixed like rabbits in the glare of spotlights. Entropy set in the moment it opened...
Mankiller said she also proved herself to the leaders of Oklahoma's five-nation tribal confederation, who at first refused to speak to her--"maybe they thought I was there to get them coffee." She became president of the coalition in 1985. "They may not love me, but at least they respect me," she said...