Word: whole
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Beijing already is in disorder and it isspreading to the whole country," Li said, in anedited version of the meeting broadcast ontelevision...
...encroachments on all archaeological sites. If Mubarak does throw his power behind preservation, he may encourage the Egyptians to take charge of their own priceless heritage and other nations to lend a hand as well. After all, if the monuments of the Pharaonic civilization are allowed to crumble, the whole world will share the loss...
...industry as a whole reaped record profits of $2.9 billion during 1988, a mark that most experts predict will be exceeded this year. The majority of the healthy airlines have put a renewed focus on improving service and employee morale. Says Alan Muncaster, a Northwest vice president: "We've been through a cultural change. There's a new philosophy stressing candor and cooperation...
...amiable, white-haired diplomat has a smile that can melt ice. And like Gorbachev, Shevardnadze sometimes shows a glint of iron teeth. Thanks, in part, to Shevardnadze's diplomatic labors, Soviet tanks and troops have been withdrawn from Afghanistan and are being partially withdrawn from Eastern Europe. A whole class of nuclear weapons has been marked for destruction under the INF treaty signed in 1987. As the Soviets and their allies disentangle themselves from conflicts in Namibia and Cambodia, they are making diplomatic inroads in the Middle East and China. "Shevardnadze has mastered the foreign policy agenda," says Robert Legvold...
...memoirs. His life sparked one of the greatest epic films ever made: David Lean's Lawrence of Arabia (1962), recently rereleased in the original, uncut version its director intended. Moviegoers can once again admire Peter O'Toole in the title role and assume that they have seen Lawrence whole. They have not, through no fault of the actor or anyone else involved in that exemplary movie. On the evidence of The Selected Letters, which includes 470 examples, roughly two-thirds published for the first time, Lawrence was a host of different people subsumed under a name that was constantly subject...