Word: willingness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...these -- a businessman named Mahound -- who has settled Rushdie's mulligatawny as far as Islamic fundamentalists are concerned. For the Gibreel-Mahound exchanges are based, in an obviously distorted and hallucinatory manner, on an episode in the life of Muhammad: the Prophet's early willingness to include in the Qur'an an acknowledgment of three female deities and his later repudiation of these verses as satanically inspired. If Muhammad himself was willing to admit that he had been deceived, it is difficult to see why a tangential, fictional version of this long-ago event should cause such contemporary furor...
So far, Shamir has given no sign he is willing to make real concessions to the Palestinians. He is strongly against any substantive international role in Middle East talks as well as any dealings with the P.L.O. Most important of all, Shamir absolutely opposes giving up control of the West...
"He has a way of moving discussions along without appearing to impose his views--mainly because he's willing to do the work rather than just opine," says Professor of Romance and Comparative Literature Barbara E. Johnson, who serves on the affirmative action committee with Verba.
But Guiney argues that school assignment and budget issues are separate. She says, "This wasn't a budget document for the Boston Public Schools which assessed and weighed all plans. This was a student assignment plan...[The mayor] is willing to talk about [money], but only within the context of...
The trigger-happy crack gangs have pointed the way for other criminals who once carried relatively crude firearms or none. "The old adage about burglars and car thieves never being armed is completely changed," says Dee Anderson, an Arlington, Texas, patrolman. He reports that an Uzi and a shotgun were...