Word: transaction
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Coffee, which makes the politician wise, And see through all things with his half-shut eyes, as Alexander Pope put it ironically, opened quite a few eyes in India last week. For thousands of Indians, the coffeehouse is indispensable as a place to meet friends, transact business, talk, write, and incidentally, consume coffee, along with free ice water and cashew nuts. Politicians, wise or unwise, come and go, inflation gallops, the population spirals; but in the coffeehouse things remain the same-or at least they did until the great betrayal...
...sponsored international conference at Vienna drafted an immunity-restricting treaty, which has already been ratified by 21 nations. Under the treaty, diplomats will be accountable for property they own or private business they transact in the host country outside the bounds of their diplomatic duties. Embassy employees will retain immunity only while they are on official business...
...used his Capitol office to transact private business, such as dispensing large amounts of cash...
...mood, Park advised women to wear their skirts shorter and demanded crew cuts for men. Above all, civil servants must stay out of kiseng (geisha) houses. That, declared the proprietress of a big kiseng house in Seoul, was carrying things too far. Said she: "Where else can government officials transact their business...
...flew from Boston to Ankara. Last week, after Dr. Adams had examined General Gursel, the relieved panel of doctors announced that the general's disability was only a "minor circulatory disturbance in the nervous system." At week's end the general, his paralysis gone, was beginning to transact state business from his bed, was expected to be fully restored and back at his desk in a matter of weeks...