Word: suit
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Patrick Tseng, Chinese area specialist for the Library of Congress, said yesterday. "It is very possible that we will switch, but we don't know when yet." Tseng added that if the Library of Congress does convert to Pinyin, other Chinese libraries will probably follow suit...
Republican Party pros scoffed when Big John Connally, 62, announced that he was running for President. "A slick Lyndon Johnson," sneered one, "A wheeler-dealer in a sharkskin suit," gibed another. Now, only two months later, the jeering has stopped. Concedes Nevada Senator Paul Laxalt, campaign chairman for Front Runner Ronald Reagan: "Connally is coming on like gangbusters...
...changeover was started by Peking (um, er, Beijing) on Jan. 1, when the government of Zhongguo (otherwise known as China) decreed that in all its foreign-language publications Pinyin would replace the traditional Wade-Giles system of romanization. Agencies of U.S., British, French and other Western governments subsequently followed suit, as did news media around the world, including TIME. (One notable exception: London's Daily Telegraph, which until January of this year still quaintly referred to Iran as "Persia"). Readers of newspapers and magazines were being forced to puzzle out such Sinological oddities as Guangzhou (Canton), Xizang (Tibet...
...been troubled by problems, from recalls and suits over the safety of earlier Pintos to a widely publicized shareholders' suit against himself (since thrown out of court) to a messy separation from his second wife Christina. Since an angina attack hospitalized him three years ago, Ford has aged, and has paid close attention to setting up a succession by trusted subordinates and family members...
Councilor Lawrence Frisoli, who voted in favor of deleting the footage requirements told the council that it was "wasting the city's resources by buying a suit...