Word: utterings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nothing against the University and its power plant." one worker said as he rubbed his hands together. "It's just that Harvard doesn't know how to handle its employees." "The strike should never have happened," a Harvard official said after it was all over. "It was simply an utter failure in communication." That failure was ostensibly MASCO's, but establishing bureaucratic layers between employer and employee or landlord and tenant hardly seems the best way for Harvard to improve communication...
...gladhanding, Karmal's sojourn in Moscow was expected to turn up little in the way of hard Soviet aid, at least not enough to pump some life into Afghanistan's hemorrhaging economy. Instead, Karmal and Brezhnev signed a wide-ranging treaty of military cooperation. Said Karmal, with utter slavishness: "Were it not for the Soviet Union, there would be no Afghanistan on the political map of our planet, and all mankind would have been suppressed by the brutal barbarity of fascism and imperialism...
...result of his own candidacy. Said he: "I just will not accept the idea that I am going to be responsible for Reagan's winning. Carter is losing votes because of Carter, because of his performance, because so many people are just turned off by his utter ineptitude. It isn't really that they are all for Reagan, either. But at least Reagan is the unknown evil; Carter is the known evil...
Against top 20 teams, it's 0-2-1. But the Harvard field hockey team continued its utter mastery of local opponents yesterday, whipping Northeastern, 4-1, at Soldiers Field...
Almost nothing is known of his private life. The few Westerners who have met him have been struck by his shrewdness and tough-mindedness, as well as his utter lack of humor. To be a Pole, almost by definition, is to be fervently nationalistic and Roman Catholic, but Kania seems to have rechanneled his religious impulses. Explains a Bonn analyst: "It's not that he is anti-church or anti-Catholic, because no Pole is. Rather, he is a devout Communist...