Word: spokenness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...believe we have spoken to anyone on the City Council," said Clem. "We have spoken to the city manager and the Community Development department and the people in the neighborhood...
WASHINGTON Speaker of the House Jim Wright caved in yesterday to opponents of a 51 percent congressional pay raise, conceding "the majority has spoken" in demanding a vote that will likely keep senators and representatives from getting any increase...
...member of the faculty with whom I have spoken has heard a single compelling reason or any series of reasons why a hotel should be built there," said Professor of English and Comparative Literature James Engell, who co-sponsored the faculty's December resolution with Landes...
...curtain-swirling supernaturalism. Not much of the actual text has changed. But at the Goodman the play confidently shuttles spectators between the everyday present and the ghostly remnants of the past, until ultimately the two worlds collide. The first glimpse of the spookily poetic comes before a word is spoken, when a shaft of white light illumines the piano, which by itself plays an eerily cheerful...
Seiji Tsutsumi, 61, is the dapper, soft-spoken head of the Seibu Saison Group (1987 sales: $28 billion), a conglomerate of department stores, supermarkets and service organizations. Yoshiaki Tsutsumi, 54, square jawed and hard driving, owns the Seibu Railway group, which operates $400 billion worth of railways, hotels, golf courses and ski resorts. The two are half brothers and have long been locked in intense competition. Last fall the conflict broke into the open when Seiji's Seibu Saison Group acquired the Inter-Continental hotel chain for nearly $2.2 billion, a challenge to Yoshiaki's hotel domain...