Word: suitors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...month Ronald Reagan had been playing something of an unaccustomed role: the overanxious suitor. At nearly every opportunity, he betrayed his eagerness to meet with his Soviet counterpart. Two days after Mikhail Gorbachev was named Soviet Communist Party leader, Reagan invited him to a tete-a-tete in the U.S. The President's desire did not diminish even after a Soviet guard shot and killed a U.S. officer in East Germany. Said Reagan in a Washington Post interview following the shooting: "I want a meeting even more so, to sit down and look someone in the eye . . . to make sure...
Shark Repellent. Any measures that a company uses to fend off a would-be acquirer, or shark. Typical repellents include changes in a firm's bylaws to make it extremely difficult for an unwanted suitor to gain control. Among the most popular in recent years has been a requirement that a merger must be approved by at least 75% of the shareholders before it can take effect...
...this latest Royal Shakespeare Company triumph, which opened last week at Broadway's Gershwin Theater in repertory with Edmond Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac. In the Much Ado realm, gods and goddesses play at love, duel with words, feign indifference and even death to gauge a suitor's passion-all to wile away a heavenly three hours...
...thought to a friend's remark not to touch her because "something's wrong with her." Nor is she troubled by the unusually heated quarrels between her father and brother. But the incidental occurrences begin to follow a menacing pattern: An irate motorist trashes Stuart's car, a rejected suitor smashes his own hands...
...innocence, and all the James children shared that pressure. But Alice had a second more immediate dilemma of her own. She realized that, on the one hand, she was too gifted and too willful to rival her mother and aunt in the domestic arena. She never had a serious suitor or any prospect of a household of her own On the other hand, she was equally unwilling to challenge her brothers on a broader scale. The combination of these pressures proved too much for her. Although he identifies other causes, her brother Henry seems to have summarized her life accurately...