Word: talked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Against the Machine, walks into Ca'Brea, a small Italian restaurant in Los Angeles, with revolution on his mind. Dressed in a hooded red sweat top, his dreads tucked into a knit cap, he takes a seat at a corner table and exchanges what, for him, passes as small talk--how money is corrupting politics, the effect of advertising on the editorial content of magazines--before getting down to important issues. He thinks Subcomandante Marcos, leader of Mexico's Zapatista rebels, should be TIME's Man of the Century. On Rage's last CD, De la Rocha co-wrote...
...beautiful nation in front of a crowd of thousands of optimistic Chinese. Forty years later, it was the very same Tiananmen Square where Deng massacred hopeful Chinese. Now as China celebrates its 50th anniversary, President Jiang Zemin has promised a better future for thousands of hopeful Chinese people. Talk about history repeating itself. MAHESH SUBBA Kathmandu, Nepal...
Richardson and FBI officials are said to be eager to see Lee indicted, not only to sanction him for downloading the legacy codes but also to pressure him to talk about why he did so and with whom, if anyone, he shared the data...
...good office politician, and how to charm your boss, your co-workers and your clients. It's not only the upper tiers of the corporate hierarchy that you should pay attention to, says the guide. "Never assume that someone is not worth schmoozing or is too busy to talk to you." What companies are the best practitioners of schmooze? According to the guide, No. 1 is General Mills, which, the authors say, is "a marriage factory." For those who find the concept of schmoozing too calculated, the authors argue that such interactions grease the workplace wheels for the betterment...
...sitting at a dinner table in Helsinki, staring at your client. What should you talk about? With guidance from International Business Etiquette: Europe by Ann Marie Sabath (Career Press), you would know that Finns are very private people. Don't ask questions about their private lives unless they bring up the topic first. What's a safe topic of conversation? Sports. Sabath, the president of At Ease, a firm based in Cincinnati, Ohio, specializing in business etiquette, has written easy-to-use guides for the corporate traveler in Europe, Asia and the Pacific Rim, and Latin America (the latter...