Word: telling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...should tell your friend Oliver North to send arms to the good guys" in Beijing, quipped Boston Globe Publisher William O. Taylor '54 to Chief Counsel to the Senate Iran-Contra Committee Arthur L. Liman...
...tremendous civility and efficiency. Even a trip to the gas station taught him something about the Japanese concept of service, as a platoon of well-mannered attendants took charge of the car, filled it up, washed it and checked the tires. His first reaction: "Why didn't someone tell me about this place before...
...eradicate it. (Had Hitler not started World War II, the taste might to this day not have returned.) Hungarians let the genie out in 1956; five days and 5,000 tanks later, Khrushchev had stuffed it back in. Twenty-one years ago, the Czechs tasted freedom for an afternoon. Tell the Czechs that today's "Moscow Spring" is irreversible. Nothing is irreversible...
...impossible to succeed enough to satisfy this woman," writes Baker, who sounds as if he does not believe how far he has come. To hear Baker tell of his rise from newspaper delivery boy to the Baltimore Sun's man about London and Washington, one would think he still regards himself as an ink- stained wretch...
...fundamental problem in U.S.-Japanese relations is that the two countries have different concepts of how an economy should work. Americans and Europeans continually tell Tokyo that they want "fair" trade, which at its simplest means equal access to the market. The notion carries moral overtones that do not necessarily jibe with the Japanese view of the world. Kyoto University history professor Yuji Aida recently wrote that "the American predisposition to view things in simplistic black-and-white terms is antithetical to our mind-set. Whereas the U.S. was founded by a people convinced of a single, revealed truth, Japan...