Word: spokenness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...clout in Hollywood, Martin Davis, 62, would never be mistaken for a movie mogul. He is a soft-spoken man who clearly lacks the bravura of his former boss, producer Samuel Goldwyn, for whom Davis once worked as an office boy and press agent. But Davis is a man in a hurry. He leapfrogged to the top of Gulf & Western over two more senior executives after the death of conglomerateur Charles Bluhdorn. It took Davis just six years to transform Gulf & Western from an unwieldy, 1960s-style pastiche of unrelated companies into the more focused media giant that he renamed...
While Time said it would give the Paramount bid a fair hearing, as the law requires, there was every indication that Time's top executives would fight to repel the intruder. In a three-page "Dear Mr. Davis" letter, Munro chastised the Paramount chairman for breaking his spoken agreement to leave Time alone: "On a personal level, I'm disappointed that I can't rely on you as a man of your word. Live and learn." Munro said the Paramount offer consisted of "smoke and mirrors," since it was subject to several conditions that included Paramount's ability to obtain...
George Bush seems to see the problem clearly. He has said that the industrialized democracies, led by the U.S., should move "beyond containment" and "integrate the Soviet Union into the world order." But he has spoken of that opportunity -- which is really an obligation -- in the future tense, as something we should think about now but do something about later, if current trends continue...
...interaction [with the Dean], but I haven't sought it," says second-year student Carol R. Schwartz, the president of the Women's Student Association. "We've spoken with [Professor of Business Administration William E.] Sasser and with a few other members of the faculty...
...least for a moment -- come to an end. Assembled in the Kremlin's Palace of Congresses were the delegates to the Soviet Union's brand-new Congress of People's Deputies, a forum where doctrine could be questioned, where the unexpected could happen, and where the unmentionable could be spoken for all the nation to hear...